XPost: linux.debian.ports.powerpc 
 From: sebastian@breakpoint.cc 
  
 On 2025-09-03 04:37:27 [+0200], Guillem Jover wrote: 
 > Hi! 
 Hi , 
  
 > Was checking last year the status of several of the dpkg arch 
 > definitions, and whether they are in use and/or useful, and 
 > stumbled over the powerpcspe one. 
 > 
 > This was requested in #568123, #575158. It got removed from Debian and 
 > was never moved into Debian ports. Is it still being used anywhere? 
 > If this is being used at all, I have no problem with keeping this, the 
 > definition just seemed somewhat dead/unused to me. 
  
 It was in debian-ports and kept alive/ used for a while. But feel free 
 to remove all trace of powerpcspe, e500 and so on. No need to keep them 
 around anymore. 
  
 I don't think that powerpcspe users use recent software simply because 
 support has been removed from gcc as of gcc-10: 
  https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=commit;h=23d3e2d5a7858670c 
 e4f6854e7a4d439278b128 
  
 > Thanks, 
 > Guillem 
  
 Sebastian 
  
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