Unfortunately powerpc will probably be removed from sid/unstable just like sparc recently was. The binaries are generated by extensive architecture that is a lo

Unfortunately powerpc will probably be removed from sid/unstable just like sparc recently was. The binaries are generated by extensive architecture that is a lot of work to maintain and needs enthusiastic developers to keep everything running and if that were the case then they wouldn't have removed it as a release arch. It may be added to debian-ports which is simultaneously the nursery for new debian archs and the nursing home for the abandoned which still have some support. ppc64 is there, sparc didn't make it. The attention has shifted to sparc64. I was a Debian/powerpc user for many years and I helped fix builds and ported new packages. But all my macs died and the limitations of the machines available make it harder to justify replacing them from ebay. I imagine many other devs had similar experiences.