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Re:I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports by StreamBright on Saturday September 01, 2018 @02:40AM (#17890595)
Great that you can cover everything from security to networking in a multimillion LOC project. I guess this is not a average software engineer skillset.
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Re:I've mostly given up on making Ubuntu bug reports by e12e on Saturday September 01, 2018 @05:38AM (#17891103)
Outside of certain areas - if you manage to reliably reproduce the bug, you're likely to able understand the bug, and it's likely you can fix it.

But sure, there are areas where things can go very wrong. Prime example being the horrible Debian ssh/ssl key gen entropy bug:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-security-announce/2008/msg00...

(note that this was a "bug-fix" introduced after a misguided effort of looking for bad code - so a bit different from the typical "I triggered this bug in normal use").

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