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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>brown-paper-bag bug</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="Brookss-Law.html" title="Brooks's Law"/><link rel="next" href="browser.html" title="browser"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">brown-paper-bag bug</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Brookss-Law.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="browser.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="brown-paper-bag-bug"/><dt xmlns="" id="brown-paper-bag-bug"><b>brown-paper-bag bug</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 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 his head for a while so he
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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
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