On Mon, Apr 22, 2019 at 11:46:56AM -0400, Santiago Torres Arias wrote: > > In some ways I'm less concerned about verify-tag, though, because the > > point is that it should be scriptable. And scraping gpg's stderr is not > > ideal there. We should be parsing --status-fd ourselves and making the > > result available via format specifier, similar to the way "log > > --format=%G?" works. > > I think that would be great, as we could make it simpler for verifiers > to parse gpg output.
Alternatively, we could make it an option to dump the --status-fd output to stderr (or to a custom fd). That still leaves the caller with the responsibility to parse gpg's output, but at least they're parsing the machine-readable bits and not the regular human-readable stderr. -Peff
