Is it worth making use of util.deprecate() to properly mark the function as deprecated?

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Is it worth making use of util.deprecate() to properly mark the function as deprecated?

@dhensby , ✅

I'm going through the upgrade process/refactor of my project that uses pdfsign and I've just noticed that I'm using extractSignature as a helper in our tests - essentially just to assert that there is indeed a signature in the PDF we've created. This is especially helpful when writing a custom signer and you want to assert that a signature was indeed added.

Is there a better way to do that?

The best I can think of would be to use an external library that deals with signature verification and exports such a utility. This one used to be part of node-signpdf some 5 years ago and is the only one I know. Finding such a library would actualy render our own extractSignature useless.

With the above in mind I'm closing this. I understand that the util may come handy to some. What I will do instead is create an adequate wording around it that clearly states this is not public-ready code.