The flag comes from wxWidgets and it _does_ have an effect of enabling some additional wxWidgets logging. That you didn't observe the effect in some particular execution of Poedit, when -- presumably -- no logging- worthy situation happened doesn't imply that it has no effect.
It's true that this isn't what you'd expect from --verbose, though. -- poedit --verbose doesn't output anything https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/593495 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs