Re: Removing dpkg arch definitions for kopensolaris-any?

[Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org>]

Hi!

On Mon, 2023-11-13 at 11:24:59 +0100, Guillem Jover wrote:
> Was checking the status of several of the dpkg arch definitions, and
> whether they are in use and/or useful, and stumbled over the
> kopensolaris-any ones.
> 
> These were requested in #509312. And I notice that the glibc ports
> at both:
> 
>   <https://github.com/dtbartle/glibc-opensolaris>
>   <https://github.com/ip1981/kopensolaris-glibc>
> 
> are not very lively. Are these being used anywhere? I don't think Dyson
> for example is using glibc, and the port uses illumos as part of its
> arch name anyway? If this is being used at all, I have no problem with
> keeping this, the definition just seemed somewhat dead/unused to me.
> 
> (BTW dpkg from git HEAD now should build and pass all tests on current
> Solaris/illumos. :)

I've queued this for removal, and will include it in my next push. We
can always add it back in the future if there's interest and work done
on this port.

Thanks,
Guillem