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a question

Posted May 3, 2007 6:02 UTC (Thu) by johnkarp (subscriber, #39285)
In reply to: a question by mmarkov
Parent article: A tale of two release cycles

A regression is a specific kind of bug. In particular, they are bugs that were not present in
previous releases. Regressions are generally warrant more concern than other bugs, since
they likely break things people have come to depend on working.

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