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Unfortunate ambiguous uses of the word drop throughout the otherwise excellent article

> The src:shadow package had dropped a Debian-specific patch,

shoot, that's evil. had not noticed this. i read this as "removed", not "was released". now idk.

this pseudo-definition of dropped as "released" is beyond stupid. yikes!

There are three uses of the word "drop," all of which are correct.

The latter-day meaning of "drop" is an abomination.

I dropped X off at Y. Then X dropped off the face of the map, never to be seen again.

Many words and phrases in English are self-antonyms.