--disable-transparent option is gone without the ChangeLog record

It disappeared somewhere between 0.2.8.11 and 0.2.9.9. The last mention of transparent proxy in ChangeLog was for 0.2.7.6.

ChangeLog should document all essential interface changes, both user-facing and build-facing.

The configured define USE_TRANSPARENT is still present in code, but it's initialization has changed in undocumented way.

added component::- select a component priority::medium resolution::wontfix severity::normal status::closed type::defect labels

The de-facto new way of enabling of USE_TRANSPARENT is checking for both net/if.h and net/pfvar.h. This makes it always enabled even when not needed.

FYI, the FreeBSD port has a special option TRANSPARENT, off by default, that is rendered broken now.

Since transparent proxy is needed only by a small fraction of users, I suggest the behavior should be:

1. there have to be --enable-transparent/--disable-transparent options
2. --disable-transparent should be the default
3. the above-mentioned headers should be checked only when the option is enabled

Also, checking net/pfvar.h is questionable since transparent proxy can be used with other than pf firewalls.

It got removed with #19449 (moved) in 0.2.9.1-alpha which is documented in the ChangeLog.

Ok, thanks!

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Resolution: N/A to wontfix
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