On 23.05.2026 00:22, Jeremy Bícha wrote:
On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> wrote:
Upstream qemu removed support for 32bit hosts entirely, including
even qemu-img utility (qemu-utils package is still in debian due
to a temporary patch). gnome-boxes can no longer use qemu-system
or qemu-utils on 32bit hosts. This includes at least 2 release
architectures: i386 and armhf.
Please remove qemu from dependencies. This dependency prevents
migration of qemu (and libvirt) to testing.
I could stop building gnome-boxes for 32-bit architectures (and ensure
it's removed there) instead. What do you think?
Well, I know nothing about gnome-boxes, don't even know what it *is*
to begin with (besides the package description in debian). I can't
decide if gnome-boxes are useful without qemu or not. If gnome-boxes
depends on qemu in one way or another and can't function without,
maybe it's a good idea to stop building it on/for 32bit architectures.
32bit support in qemu wont go back.
If you consider dropping building gnome-boxes on 32bit architectures,
maybe it is a good idea to watch for reverse dependencies, - for
packages who depends on gnome-boxes on these architectures, too.
Thank you!
/mjt
