Re: Removing dpkg arch definitions for powerpcspe?

Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.dpkg.general,gmane.linux.debian.ports.powerpc
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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=23d3e2d5a7858670c3e4f6854e7a4d439278b128

> Thanks,
> Guillem

Sebastian
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