Comment 38 for bug 971761

On 14 January 2013 12:20, Steve Langasek <email address hidden> wrote:
>> > 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.

Right, though Wubi certainly is. Reassigning that issue to Wubi for triage.

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

>> This is bug 1016294 […]
>
> 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.

No argument from me. That bug report has remained open for quite some
time; marking it as invalid.

Regards