bzr with bzr+ssh noisy and output muddled.

[David Ingamells]

I have just upgraded from bzr 1.10 to 1.1.5.1 and now when I run bzr 
status with a stacked branch where the parent is over a bzr+ssh 
connection the command first prints a progress bar and then the desired 
output over the top.

e.g. this is what I see:

 > bzr status
modified:            *] bzr+ssh <      2KB     4KB/s 
|   *                                                                                                                                  
 
trunk/src/file1
...

Not pretty at all :(((

How can I get the bzr+ssh code to shut up and not print the connection 
progress bar?

It is not only bzr status that does this.

I do see that the progress is printed to STDERR, but STDERR is not 
intended for such output. It is an abuse of basic UNIX principles to use 
STDERR for non-error output. By using it for such "trivia" you risk 
annoying many UNIX (power-)users.