disable debug for now

Signed-off-by: vsoch <vsoch@users.noreply.github.com>

lib/spack/spack/main.py

@@ -473,16 +473,17 @@ def setup_main_options(args):
 
     # Set up environment based on args.
     tty.set_verbose(args.verbose)
-    tty.set_debug(2)
+    tty.set_debug(args.debug)
     tty.set_stacktrace(args.stacktrace)
 
-    # Force always using debug
+    # debug must be set first so that it can even affect behavior of
+    # errors raised by spack.config.
+
     if args.debug:
-        spack.error.debug = True
-    spack.error.debug = args.debug
-    spack.util.debug.register_interrupt_handler()
-    spack.config.set('config:debug', True, scope='command_line')
-    spack.util.environment.tracing_enabled = True
+        spack.error.debug = args.debug
+        spack.util.debug.register_interrupt_handler()
+        spack.config.set('config:debug', True, scope='command_line')
+        spack.util.environment.tracing_enabled = True
 
     if args.timestamp:
         tty.set_timestamp(True)