The people who are saying that this is only a problem for developers and not users, I would suggest reconsidering your position. If the developer needs to deliver an important security update or a data loss prevention update, he is unable to do so, leaving them with an option to not use an application for over a month, of course in a fairy-tale land where early warnings are delivered to users.

I would like to know what was the basis for the decision to switch the autobuilder to PR1.2 on that specific date rather than, for example, today? Qt applications would be updated by any caring developer within days of PR1.2 release, no other applications would have been affected. Now both hildon and qt applications are affected and have been for several weeks, leaving developers and users frustrated. This is a miniscule community compared to the Android Market or the App Store, but imagine the outrage if this had happened in those places. It's not enough that we are so small, let's make things even more difficult. Imagine someone coming in right now, wanting to develop something for the N900. Not really possible to test in on the device (if you have an up-to-date SDK installed), not really possible to deliver to users (if you want the official channel, not building your own repository). It's just sad.