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