Comment 33 for bug 1717040

"...an application hardwired to deal with v0.5.x experimental format, if such a thing exist..."

@ahasenack: Isn't this precisely we have Ubuntu Backports?
We are saying:
here is a new version of this software
we have checked that it doesn't break anything in the archive
you need to opt-in to install it
and if you've built some local packages with it, you may have some breakage