channeldb: revert to prior migration policy #3597
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In this commit, we revert #3485, thereby reverting to our existing migration policy. The prior stricter policy created a large burden on applications that package
lnd
as they're forced to deploy special code to handle certain upgrade paths. In addition, it was realized that the policy was most damaging to mobile deployments as it's customary for users to skip versions, making the stricter upgrade policy difficult to manage without dramatically affecting the end user.