diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
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index 610372d2..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage1-systemd-mu.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,12 +0,0 @@
-subarch: alpha
-target: stage1
-version_stamp: systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-rel_type: mergedusr
-profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0/systemd/merged-usr
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: mergedusr/stage3-alpha-systemd-mergedusr-latest
-update_seed: yes
-update_seed_command: -uDN @world
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
-compression_mode: pixz
diff --git a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd-mu.spec b/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd-mu.spec
deleted file mode 100644
index e4a244ad..00000000
--- a/releases/specs-qemu/alpha/stage3-systemd-mu.spec
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,11 +0,0 @@
-subarch: alpha
-target: stage3
-version_stamp: systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-rel_type: mergedusr
-profile: default/linux/alpha/17.0/systemd/merged-usr
-snapshot_treeish: @TREEISH@
-source_subpath: mergedusr/stage1-alpha-systemd-mergedusr-@TIMESTAMP@
-portage_confdir: @REPO_DIR@/releases/portage/stages-qemu
-interpreter: /usr/bin/qemu-alpha
-compression_mode: pixz
-binrepo_path: alpha/binpackages/17.0/alpha