Pkg xen devel - Feb 2019 - Bug#921962: Please remove obsolete 'xm' completion file

Package: bash-completion
Version: 1:2.8-5

Hi bash completion maintainer,

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).

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 a lot for taking care of it up until now!

Hans van Kranenburg

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?
> 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]).

[1] https://github.com/scop/bash-completion/pull/276#issuecomment-456558772

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. :)
>> 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