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brown-paper-bag bug
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n. A bug in a public software release that is so embarrassing that the
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author notionally wears a brown paper bag over their head for a while so they
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won't be recognized on the net. Entered popular usage after the early-1999
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release of the first Linux 2.2, which had one. The phrase was used in Linus
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Torvalds's apology posting.
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