[OpenAFS-devel] Patch to add much more diagnostics to vos move when run with -verbose

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Russ Allbery wrote:

> > Please don't go around making gratuitous changes to messages.  There are
> > people and programs which depend on the output format of various AFS
> > commands, and changing that format can break them.  So make sure you
> > have a _good_ reason before you change something like that.
> 
> With all due respect to the people concerned with that sort of thing, I
> think it's pretty unreasonable to never change the output of any command
> to make it more user-friendly because people are doing things that they
> should never have had to do in the first place.

At minimum, though, not in a minor version update to the code.
1.2.3->1.2.4 should not be expected to break your scripts.