[Swan-dev] whack --debug {base,crypt,private,more}

[Andrew Cagney]

We had an off list discussion ...

On Tue, 27 Nov 2018 at 08:23, Paul Wouters <paul at nohats.ca> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Nov 2018, Andrew Cagney wrote:
>
> > Time to paint a boat shed.  These are my suggestions:
> >
> > base: it replaces "all"
> > crypt: anything that might accidentally leak crypto material and,
> > typically, is TMI
> > more: stuff that normally isn't helpful
> > private: crypto compliance stuff that really should be switched to a log flag
> >
> > I don't think there should be "all" (except, perhaps short term have
> > it map onto base).
> >
> > As for implementation, I was thinking of my usual quick and nasty
> > approach of defining most of the old flags as DBG_BASE - what matters
> > here is the UI.  Then, as things switch to using dbg() they will go
> > away.
>
> I am okay with this, but would like to hear from others before we move
> forward.

Paul noticed 'more' is no good - 'more' debug information must be better, right?
So instead the very short TMI.