Comment by PunchyHamster

Haven't noticed much broken.

But I have noticed far more broken in distro that DOES backport features, RHEL/Centos. So many that we migrated away from it, when they backported a driver bug into centos 5 and then did the same backport of a bug for centos 6.

Also rebuilding package is trivial if you don't agree with what should and should not go into stable version