gnupg-1.4.0 outputs some verbose information to stdout

Atom Smasher atom at smasher.org
Thu Jan 20 20:12:17 CET 2005


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On Thu, 20 Jan 2005, Werner Koch wrote:

> On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 18:58:50 +0100, Nico R said:
>
>> Is printing the verbose information to stdout wanted behavior? I think 
>> it should go to stderr instead.
>
> Lets say: it has always been this way for no particular reason.  We 
> can't change it now because scripts parsing the output expect it on 
> stdout.
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hhmmm.... "--all-verbose-to-stderr"? "--verbose-fd"?

i don't know about anyone else, but on my scripts it gets in the way.


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