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    SubjectRe: starting with 2.7
    On Sun, 2 Jan 2005, Andries Brouwer wrote:

    > You change some stuff. The bad mistakes are discovered very soon.
    > Some subtler things or some things that occur only in special
    > configurations or under special conditions or just with
    > very low probability may not be noticed until much later.

    Some of these subtle bugs are only discovered a year
    after the distribution with some particular kernel has
    been deployed - at which point the kernel has moved on
    so far that the fix the distro does might no longer
    apply (even in concept) to the upstream kernel...

    This is especially true when you are talking about really
    big database servers and bugs that take weeks or months
    to trigger.

    --
    "Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place.
    Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are,
    by definition, not smart enough to debug it." - Brian W. Kernighan
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