I'd put that under the 'Too Bad' category. If a branch is so far behind reality/master then any testing done on it is quite likely to be invalid, and it won't h

I'd put that under the 'Too Bad' category. If a branch is so far behind reality/master then any testing done on it is quite likely to be invalid, and it won't have any hotfixes that were deployed in the meantime. YMMV