https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/issues/566
https://github.com/pytest-dev/pytest-cov/pull/565

From 97483386bde4febe7ff48726f887cc6423d308b9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chedi <chedi.toueiti@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2022 11:18:31 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] disabling boxed test if version xdist newer than 2.5.0

--- a/tests/test_pytest_cov.py
+++ b/tests/test_pytest_cov.py
@@ -1555,7 +1555,8 @@ def test_foo():
 
 SCRIPT_SIMPLE_RESULT = '4 * 100%'
 
-
+@pytest.mark.skipif('tuple(map(int, xdist.__version__.split("."))) >= (2, 5, 0)',
+                    reason="--boxed option was removed in version 2.5.0")
 @pytest.mark.skipif('sys.platform == "win32"')
 def test_dist_boxed(testdir):
     script = testdir.makepyfile(SCRIPT_SIMPLE)