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On 1/10/2012 1:00 PM, David Lamb wrote:

> I no longer have the reference at hand, but aeons ago I recall reading a
> paper that used basically the same qualifiers as Peter but applied them
> to the word "flaw" instead of "bug;"


Other terms might be "issue" (like, "I have an issue with the way this 
code works), or "undesirable feature."

In a bug-base, these are sometimes referred to as RFEs (Request for 
Enhancement) as opposed to bugs or RFCs (Request for Change).