On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:48:18 +0100 Markus Armbruster <arm...@redhat.com> wrote:
> It's a cleanup. It's only user-visible effect is getting rid of an > extra newline on stderr. I'm fixing those globally. Tiny improvement > in user experience, but next to no risk, thus proposed for 1.4. Since I > need to touch this call anyway for that, I can just as well clean up the > API abuse. The alternative is to leave the abuse alone and just strip > the final newline. That would make me sad. > > If you hate the API, fix it. Don't make me not fix abuses of it :) I honestly would prefer to defer this and fix the API once and for all. But it's not worth to discuss this anymore, as this patch has already been merged.