From: Claudio Jeker Subject: Re: rpki-client: deprecate -T and hardcode BIRD table names? To: Theo Buehler Cc: Job Snijders , tech@openbsd.org Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2025 16:40:02 +0100 On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 04:23:00PM +0100, Theo Buehler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 02, 2025 at 01:04:53PM +0000, Job Snijders wrote: > > Ola, > > > > I think the -T option isn't all that useful, especially considering the > > advent of ASPA (for which specification of the table name currently is > > not possible), so for consistency sake we either need to add another > > command line option for the ASPA table name, or just deprecate -T. > > I'm not against this, but since I expect this to be interesting mostly > for portable users, I would consider doing a simple warnx() announcing > the deprecation for a portable release or two, then zap it with the > patch below with the errx changed to "-T is no longer supported" - > deprecated usually means "it still works, but stop relying on it". > > Since claudio added the knob, I'd like to wait for his feedback. I agree with what tb@ said. I doubt there are many users of this feature, I added -T mainly because bird needed a name for those tables. Also people tend to use RTR with bird. -- :wq Claudio