[gr4vityWall]

In other words, it didn't hit any people running Stable distros, only users on Beta versions or rolling releases.

Sounds like an improvement - having beta builds for people to catch those before they arrive in a stable GNU distribution seems the ideal workflow at glance.

[graemep]

On top of that the number of such issues is tiny compared to language distros.

Distro packaging is not perfect, but it is much, much better.