[tor-bugs] #10837 [Tor]: Stop giving out version 2 descriptors to controllers

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#10837: Stop giving out version 2 descriptors to controllers
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     Reporter:  karsten      |      Owner:
         Type:  enhancement  |     Status:  new
     Priority:  normal       |  Milestone:  Tor: 0.2.5.x-final
    Component:  Tor          |    Version:
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Comment (by nickm):

 I don't think it's such a good idea to drop that code.   (This isn't v2
 descriptors, btw. It's v2-style routerstatus lines.  They aren't taken
 directly from the networkstatus; they're generated based on our opinions
 of the nodes.)

 Controller are allowed to use this info, and it's a comparatively small
 amount of code to keep it for now IMO.  I'd like to have a better node-
 status export format, but it's not trivial to drop the "v2 routerstatus"
 format right now.

 From a spec pov however, it ''would'' be nice to take just the v2
 routerstatus format, document it by comparison to the v3 routerstatus
 format, and put that in control-spec.txt or in an appendix to it, so that
 we can retire dir-spec-v2.txt.

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