Commit 99339bf7892fcc1201e06e6a8105b0bb4681c4f4 introduced a check to prevent installing a replica against an older server.

This check is way too strict, as it includes distribution relase version in the comparison such that 4.4.0-1.1 is considered too old compared to 4.4.0-1.2
Version check should be limited to main version, unfortunately this is not possible with the LooseVersion class chosen so the whole commit should be scrapped and rebuilt with a better version parsing library.