client: Deprecate the “tuf-client list” command

[rdimitrov]

Description:

• The list command for the go-tuf client implementation might not be very useful in the long term
• It’s okay to build a list with the available targets when there are only a few, but that wouldn’t be very practical in a real-world use case with a lot of delegations and targets

Proposed alternative solutions:

• Implement a dedicated tuf-client search <target-name> command returning true/false
• Use the existing get command, but introduce a --dry-run option to see if it would find the target

[directionless]

As a slight counterpoint, I use TUF in the real world, and I have few enough delegations and targets that I find it quite useful to be able to list them all.

[asraa]

that I find it quite useful to be able to list them all.

I would also like to at least keep a command that would list targets, but maybe we can do this on a per-delegation basis?

e.g. tuf-client list prints top-level targets tuf-client list <delegation> prints targets for delegation

[rdimitrov]

Closing since the code base changed and the goal of the project would be to focus on being a library first and not so much on providing a CLI client.

There might be a CLI based on this, but it will live in a separate repository.

Thanks for raising this 👍