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

[Gabriel F. T. Gomes]

On Tue, Feb 12 2019, Hans van Kranenburg wrote:
> On 2/12/19 1:35 AM, Gabriel F. T. Gomes wrote:
> > 
> > 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"

Thanks for the information.  I have forwarded this upstream as
https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/284

> 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. :)

I see.  It would be easier, from a maintenance perspective, to wait for
the upstream patch to be accepted, then released in bash-completion 2.9,
then updated in Debian, instead of backporting this specific fix.

It is my understanding that having the completion for the unavailable
command is not so harmful, and that we could ship it with buster, even
though it is useless.  Not ideal, but easier for maintenance.  Would
that be OK for you, or is it causing more trouble than I can actually
see (I don't use Xen, so I don't know).