[PATCH] find-debuginfo: unless -q -q, print messages what big steps we are at

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Denys,

On Thu, 2023-06-29 at 16:13 +0200, Mark Wielaard wrote:
> > We can give a few messages explaining what general steps we go through:
> > 
> >     Extracting debug info from N files
> >     DWARF-compressing N files
> >     Creating .debug symlinks for symlinks to ELF files
> >     Copying sources found by 'debugedit -l'
> > 
> > This is also useful to get a feeling which steps are time consuming.
> > Kernel builds often need to investigate this aspect. To help a bit more,
> > add "find-debuginfo: starting" and "find-debuginfo: done" messages too.
> > 
> > This patch adds these messages.
> > 
> > Two -q -q options suppress these messages too.
> 
> I like this idea, but I am wondering if instead of -q -q we should
> have a -v,--verbose flag for the very verbose output. Then this
> explanary output could be the default. And -q,--quiet would suppress
> even those message.

So this is what I was thinking. What do you think?
https://code.wildebeest.org/git/user/mjw/debugedit/commit/?h=verbose

Thanks,

Mark
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