The thing is, you don't know whether they'd have been published in this form or not, that's the entire point of having a testing repository. If the testing process had turned up bugs that needed to be fixed (as it appears there may have been) they would not have been pushed to -extras itself until they were fixed.

You could, but that would be pretty poor behaviour in a community too, and as a general rule this sort of testing approach does actually work in community linux distributions. Things get tested, bugs get fixed, fixed versions get released.

I think that's an excellent point, and one I disagree with entirely. I'm not sure why you think that circumventing the rules and conventions of behaviour of a community is a small deal. These things are important, and people ignoring the conventions just make things worse for everyone. To add to the list of tortured analogies in this thread, it's like dropping litter; it's easier for you than finding a bin, but messes the place up. Choosing to do it is a deliberate statement that your own interests are more important than everyone else's, and while there's nothing to forcibly stop you acting that way, I don't see why other members of a community should be expected to support it.