[Pkg-xen-devel] Bug#921962: Please remove obsolete 'xm' completion file

[Hans van Kranenburg]

On 2/12/19 1:59 AM, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 2/12/19 1:35 AM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 10 2019, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
>>>
>>> Please remove the 'xm' file from the bash-completion package. This
>>> command does not exist in Xen any more (last time it was relevant was in
>>> Jessie, where it was already deprecated).
>>
>> That should be easy to do for Debian.  On the other hand, I wonder if I
>> should work first with upstream to get it removed from there.  Do you
>> know if the deprecation of xm is debian-specific?  Or has it been
>> deprecated and removed by the xen project?
> 
> There is no xm bash completion upstream any more.
> 
> Also, quoting upstream wiki about this:
> 
> https://wiki.xen.org/wiki/Choice_of_Toolstacks
> 
> "Deprecated in Xen 4.1; Removed in 4.5"
> 
> Stretch has Xen 4.8, Buster will have at least Xen 4.11.
> 
> So, there's really no reason to just throw this xm file into the
> wastebin asap. :)

*cough* .. to not do that...

> 
>>> Also, I just hijacked another of your bugs, 768005 , about the xl
>>> command completion. Hope that's fine, we can maintain this in the Xen
>>> packaging and upstream improvements.
>>
>> Thanks for doing this.  That's the ideal situation (from an upstream
>> bash-completion point-of-view, anyway [1]).
> 
> HTH (as.. Happy To Help!),
> 
> K
> 
>>
>> [1] https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/276#issuecomment-456558772
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