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On Fri, 08 Feb 2013 20:48:18 +0100
Markus Armbruster <armbru@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.