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Posted via web from Jeff Hui | Comment »
It's just a one-line change!
Even the simplest of changes can cause unexpected regressions due to lurking problems.
In bug 81125, the upgrade regression had nothing to do with the content of the change that triggered it: any user who had installed the libpthread20 package would encounter a problem the next time libc6 was upgraded.
In bug 309674, the failure was a misbuild due to timestamp skew in the build process. The...