Comment 6 for bug 1046890

Moving to a less heavily patched upstream version including what looks like pretty significant fixes/improvements seems worth it to me.
It doesn't sound like the new features will be particularly user visible except in the cases where they'll get a working system where they wouldn't in the past, so I'm not seeing a problem with these either.

The testing plan mentioned on IRC, using a PPA and call for testing before pushing to the archive sounds good.
Having this land later this week or early next week would be ideal, any later would be impacting beta 2.

In case of major non-trivially fixable regressions, the plan is to re-upload the current 1.99 (using one of these rather ugly version numbers).

+1