I've been maintaining packages in Debian for ten years and as far as I know it's quite common to cherry pick not-yet-released commits when needed. BTW, I have no problem updating the whole tree, but that's not a released version anyway, unless we wait for it to be released (and I'd hope we don't), so I don't see how that solves your problem. As I said, I have no problem with it anyway, so will update the MR in that sense.