diff --git a/pkg/paho-mqtt/Makefile.dep b/pkg/paho-mqtt/Makefile.dep
index 0b8e325fc9..4dd2edbda0 100644
--- a/pkg/paho-mqtt/Makefile.dep
+++ b/pkg/paho-mqtt/Makefile.dep
@@ -1,7 +1,3 @@
-# PAHO does some comparisons against literals that make certain assumptions
-# about the width of integer types which hold only true for 32 bit platforms
-FEATURES_REQUIRED += arch_32bit
-
 USEMODULE += ztimer
 USEMODULE += ztimer_msec
 USEMODULE += paho-mqtt-contrib