May 15, 2003

brown-paper-bag bug

n.

A bug in a public software release that is so embarrassing 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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:55 AM

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