Comment 37 for bug 971761

> > To our knowledge, if [dpkg.cfg.d/multiarch] is missing this can only
> > be as a result of a manual action on your part to remove it.

> See bug 1093819 for some claims to the contrary.

Well, debootstrap is not exactly a supported installation method.

> Some users experience dependency problems beyond having multiarch
> configured. For example:

> Andrew Schulman (andrex) wrote:
> > The following packages have unmet dependencies:
> > ia32-libs-multiarch:i386 : Depends: gstreamer0.10-plugins-good:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> > Depends: gtk2-engines:i386 but it is not going to be installed
> > […]

> This is bug 1016294 and covers most of the problems here, as confirmed
> by the majority of recent comments. Merging.

These issues are, without exception, the result of local misconfiguration
and/or local installation of mismatched library versions. It is not a bug
in ia32-libs that users have their systems in a state that doesn't allow the
package's dependencies to be satisfied - the dependencies *are* satisfiable
in the Ubuntu archive.