> The question for distros is just when? A rolling distro sees such changes continuously, and each package may in principle change at any point independently of any other package.
The way it's set up now is there is a -proposed pocket where major transitions are being held, so the old notion of having a library upgrade breaking $foo applications doesn't really happen anymore. From my view, I've been running 13.04 everyday and about half way through the development cycle it was better than 12.10. EDIT: There is also a ton of active QA happening in Ubuntu now, we have nice things we never had before like daily builds firing off and having tests run, prerelease pocket test, and (soonish) phased updates.
As far as what you're going to do when your user apps upgrade, you've been doing it on Firefox/Chrome/your phone for ages now, it's about time our desktops caught up!
The way it's set up now is there is a -proposed pocket where major transitions are being held, so the old notion of having a library upgrade breaking $foo applications doesn't really happen anymore. From my view, I've been running 13.04 everyday and about half way through the development cycle it was better than 12.10. EDIT: There is also a ton of active QA happening in Ubuntu now, we have nice things we never had before like daily builds firing off and having tests run, prerelease pocket test, and (soonish) phased updates.
As far as what you're going to do when your user apps upgrade, you've been doing it on Firefox/Chrome/your phone for ages now, it's about time our desktops caught up!