[dspillett]

> What is the use case for shipping unfinished patches?

I think the issue isn't an individual patch that hasn't been completed, such patches are unlikely to be checked-in anywhere.

It is patches that are part of unfinished work, or that have not been integration tested with the rest of the product, or are not stable/useful/safe without other work that has not yet been merged. Basically patches intended fr other project devs, not the general userbase yet.

But to answer the question directly, in case it is literally unfinished patches:

> What is the use case for shipping unfinished patches?

“Being the latest & greatest” willy waving in end-user aimed distributions.

I can see a use case for some dev communities, though mainly for proactive compatibility testing purposes, not for dev or non-test deployment environments.