Ok, I see in the HB policy where "stable" tags are preferred. In this particularly mature repo, every commit seems to be stable. I do not really see why bunging in an inline patch is any better than just picking a non-controversial set of micro-bug-fix commits ahead of the last tag. I'd rather not bother upstream to make a micro-point release, as there is no major new feature yet to warrant it (like the Qt5 GUI update in progress), it'd just be purely for satisfying this policy.