Bug#1137353: qemu dropped support for 32bit hosts but gnome-boxes depends on it

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 5:07 PM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> 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?

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha