Hello,

I think that we might want to do more than just print a warning to
stderr, because that might not help users enough to learn how
git-debpush works or to change their habits.

This seems especially significant in light of how this program normally
does not output errors or warnings without either pausing for
confirmation or giving up completely.  Anything in its printed output
that does not involve pausing or stopping is therefore too easily missed
or ignored.

I can think of a few options:

1. say that the quilt mode option was superfluous, then print
   [acknowledge] (or similar), and require the user to press return
   before continuing
2. make it work just like a failed check.  The user has to type y and
   then return to continue.  Sounds a bit strange in the abstract but
   might be the most useful in practice.
3. just exit, requiring the user to run the command again without the
   superfluous quilt option.

For all three, --batch would switch to just a printed warning.

-- 
Sean Whitton

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