Man page update and changes file for 20667

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o Minor bugfixes (directory downloads):
- Download all consensus flavors, descriptors, and authority certificates
when FetchUselessDescriptors is set, regardless of whether tor is a
directory cache or not.
Fixes bug 20667; bugfix on all recent tor versions.

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(Default: 1)
[[FetchUselessDescriptors]] **FetchUselessDescriptors** **0**|**1**::
If set to 1, Tor will fetch every non-obsolete descriptor from the
authorities that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
descriptors, for example for routers that are not running. This option is
useful if you're using the contributed "exitlist" script to enumerate Tor
nodes that exit to certain addresses. (Default: 0)
If set to 1, Tor will fetch every consensus flavor, descriptor, and
certificate that it hears about. Otherwise, it will avoid fetching useless
descriptors: flavors that it is not using to build circuits, and authority
certificates it does not trust. This option is useful if you're using a
tor client with an external parser that uses a full consensus.
This option fetches all documents, **DirCache** fetches and serves
all documents. (Default: 0)
[[HTTPProxy]] **HTTPProxy** __host__[:__port__]::
Tor will make all its directory requests through this host:port (or host:80