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

[Jeremy Bícha]

On Fri, May 22, 2026 at 5:29 PM Michael Tokarev <mjt at tls.msk.ru> wrote:
> Well, I know nothing about gnome-boxes, don't even know what it *is*
> to begin with (besides the package description in debian).

GNOME Boxes is like virt-manager but with a lot fewer configuration
options. Boxes is easier to use as long as you don't need the other
features.

> 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.

The only reverse dependency is the gnome-devel metapackage, so that's
easy to handle.

Thank you,
Jeremy Bícha