I believe one of the reasons we want to allow "show" on deleted flavor IDs has to do with instances that are still using those flavor IDs; we wanted the "nova" tool to be able to query the details about the flavor ID in question.
I believe one of the reasons we want to allow "show" on deleted flavor IDs has to do with instances that are still using those flavor IDs; we wanted the "nova" tool to be able to query the details about the flavor ID in question.