From 37994e14228290360dde45db1670011c362e7bf5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Randall Leeds <randall@bleeds.info>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2020 18:08:38 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] Remove the --log-config-dict flag

There is no support for decoding any dictionary supplied on the command
line. The only way to supply a dictionary logging config is through the
configuration file.

Close #1909.
---
 docs/source/news.rst | 6 ++++++
 gunicorn/config.py   | 1 -
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/docs/source/news.rst b/docs/source/news.rst
index 2f8c7481..3b902a03 100644
--- a/docs/source/news.rst
+++ b/docs/source/news.rst
@@ -2,6 +2,12 @@
 Changelog
 =========
 
+Unreleased
+==========
+
+- remove the `--log-dict-config` CLI flag because it never had a working format
+  (the `logconfig_dict` setting in configuration files continues to work)
+
 20.0.4 / 2019/11/26
 ===================
 
diff --git a/gunicorn/config.py b/gunicorn/config.py
index b43e3922..11c924c1 100644
--- a/gunicorn/config.py
+++ b/gunicorn/config.py
@@ -1419,7 +1419,6 @@ class LogConfig(Setting):
 class LogConfigDict(Setting):
     name = "logconfig_dict"
     section = "Logging"
-    cli = ["--log-config-dict"]
     validator = validate_dict
     default = {}
     desc = """\