[acdha]

If you want to be pedantic, no, it's not a bug but in the vast majority of the software world people use the term “bug tracker” to refer to a system which also tracks new work which isn't strictly a defect.

And, since we're being pedantic, when I said “vast majority of the software world”, that includes the OpenBSD project:

“Sending in bug reports

If possible, use the sendbug(1) command to get the bug into our tracking system. Sendbug requires that your system can properly send Internet email. If you cannot use sendbug on a functional OpenBSD machine, please send your bug report to [e-mail].

Perhaps what you are sending in is a feature request, not necessarily a bug. New features are accepted, especially with code that implements your suggested new feature.”

http://www.openbsd.org/report.html#bugtypes

[protomyth]

Ok, but it has an -f behavior that seems to do the right thing. I don't think I would file a request to add flags that aren't needed.

I'm not being "pedantic", I just don't think there is anything to change.

[acdha]

The idea is that if everyone else is converging on "tail -F" supporting that as an alias means that people's habits & shell scripts just work without modification. That seems worth adding a single line to a switch statement to me.