diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f15524d1..f66c1b0e 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -16,6 +16,7 @@
   - add "osc aggregate --nosources" option
   - add "request clone" command to clone all packages from a given request
   - fixed references into en.opensuse.org to honor the new Wiki structure
+  - add cross build targets mips and mipsel for QEMU Usermode. needs also build update.
 
 0.128
   - better default commands selection for editor/pager
diff --git a/osc/core.py b/osc/core.py
index d68322c8..5e622deb 100644
--- a/osc/core.py
+++ b/osc/core.py
@@ -2036,9 +2036,7 @@ def http_request(method, url, headers={}, data=None, file=None, timeout=100):
     filefd = None
 
     if conf.config['http_debug']:
-        print
-        print
-        print '--', method, url
+        print >>sys.stderr, '\n\n--', method, url
 
     if method == 'POST' and not file and not data:
         # adding data to an urllib2 request transforms it into a POST
@@ -2090,7 +2088,7 @@ def http_request(method, url, headers={}, data=None, file=None, timeout=100):
                 else:
                     raise
 
-    if conf.config['debug']: print method, url
+    if conf.config['debug']: print >>sys.stderr, method, url
 
     old_timeout = socket.getdefaulttimeout()
     # XXX: dirty hack as timeout doesn't work with python-m2crypto
diff --git a/osc/fetch.py b/osc/fetch.py
index d39ff68f..f2d00480 100644
--- a/osc/fetch.py
+++ b/osc/fetch.py
@@ -92,10 +92,9 @@ class Fetcher:
         mg = MirrorGroup(self.gr, pac.urllist, failure_callback=(self.failureReport,(),{}))
 
         if self.http_debug:
-            print
-            print 'URLs to try for package \'%s\':' % pac
-            print '\n'.join(pac.urllist)
-            print
+            print >>sys.stderr, '\nURLs to try for package \'%s\':' % pac
+            print >>sys.stderr, '\n'.join(pac.urllist)
+            print >>sys.stderr
 
         (fd, tmpfile) = tempfile.mkstemp(prefix='osc_build')
         try:
@@ -229,8 +228,8 @@ class Fetcher:
                 sys.exit(0)
             except URLGrabError, e:
                 if self.http_debug:
-                    print "can't fetch key for %s: %s" %(i, e.strerror)
-                    print "url: %s" % url
+                    print >>sys.stderr, "can't fetch key for %s: %s" %(i, e.strerror)
+                    print >>sys.stderr, "url: %s" % url
 
                 if os.path.exists(dest):
                     os.unlink(dest)