Comment 76 for bug 1656112

So I thought that was a bit weird, so look below:

First, I wanted to see what was installed:
ubuntu@fesenkov:~$ apt-cache policy qemu-system-ppc*
qemu-system-ppcemb:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
qemu-system-ppc: ###this is what I had installed, and I'm not entirely sure why it was down-rev. I presume this is the package you mean... I did a dist-upgrade on the node, so I'm not entirely sure why it was skipped before. Oh well, it's upgraded now, I'll re-try.
  Installed: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11
  Candidate: 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13
  Version table:
     1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-proposed/main ppc64el Packages
 *** 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-updates/main ppc64el Packages
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-security/main ppc64el Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10 500
        500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial/main ppc64el Packages
qemu-system-ppc64: ### I expected to see this installed, I didn't realize it was now just a blank pointer to qemu-system-ppc
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: (none)
  Version table:
ubuntu@fesenkov:~$ sudo apt-get install qemu-system-ppc64
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Note, selecting 'qemu-system-ppc' instead of 'qemu-system-ppc64'
Suggested packages:
  samba vde2 openbios-ppc openhackware
The following packages will be upgraded:
  qemu-system-ppc
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 56 not upgraded.
Need to get 2,431 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports xenial-proposed/main ppc64el qemu-system-ppc ppc64el 1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13 [2,431 kB]
Fetched 2,431 kB in 0s (12.0 MB/s)
(Reading database ... 79950 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../qemu-system-ppc_1%3a2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13_ppc64el.deb ...
Unpacking qemu-system-ppc (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13) over (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.11) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up qemu-system-ppc (1:2.5+dfsg-5ubuntu10.13) ...

So now I'll re-try as qemu-system-ppc is updated.