Hi, Currently running latest wine (by apt) with muitiarch and recently Wine 11 was released. It now has native WOW64 support so theoretically it can eliminate the needs of 32-bit/multiarch. And I really want to remove "multiarch" from my Debian to reduce attack surface by removing unnecessary pkgs - entire i386 from my AMD64.
My question is, - will we receive Wine 11 on Trixie, or will it be moved to Forky(14)? - your website ( https://wiki.debian.org/Wine ) still suggesting multiarch; will it be removed when Wine11 becomes available on APT? > Here is what I currently have on 64bit Debian :~$ dpkg --list|grep wine ii fonts-wine 10.0~repack-6 all Windows API implementation - fonts ii libwine:amd64 10.0~repack-6 amd64 Windows API implementation - library ii libwine:i386 10.0~repack-6 i386 Windows API implementation - library ii wine 10.0~repack-6 all Windows API implementation - standard suite ii wine32:i386 10.0~repack-6 i386 Windows API implementation - 32-bit binary loader ii wine64 10.0~repack-6 amd64 Windows API implementation - 64-bit binary loader ii winetricks 20250102-1 all simple tool to work around common problems in Wine > Below is what AI says currently What your package list shows >From your dpkg output you have: libwine:amd64 and wine64 (64‑bit parts) and also libwine:i386 and wine32:i386 (32‑bit parts) Plus wine meta package that depends on both That means your Debian Wine 10.0 build is still using the classic “multiarch” model: 32‑bit Windows programs are run via real 32‑bit Unix libraries (:i386), not solely through the new WoW64-in-Wine layer. Why you shouldn’t remove 32‑bit yet As long as the Debian package is built this way, removing libwine:i386 and wine32:i386 will break running 32‑bit Windows apps, even though your prefix is 64‑bit. The upstream WoW64 mode (no native 32‑bit libs, only 64‑bit) is not enabled just by having Wine 10; it must be built and packaged that way. Your package list shows Debian is still shipping the traditional dual 32/64‑bit loaders. So with your current packages, you should: Keep i386 multiarch and wine32:i386 if you need 32‑bit Windows applications to work. Only consider dropping i386 once Debian provides a “pure WoW64” Wine build that no longer depends on wine32/libwine:i386, or you switch to a custom Wine build that explicitly targets WoW64‑only.
