Bug#697270: PC 32-bit programs fails to work on amd64

[Colin Watson <cjwatson@debian.org>]

On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 06:59:49PM +0000, Ben Hutchings wrote:
>     dpkg --add-architecture i386
>     apt-get update
> 
> The installer doesn't AFAIK provide even the option to do this.  (The
> i386/amd64 installer images might at least be usable as multiarch APT
> sources though.)  So this is a usability regression in wheezy.

I don't think I got round to updating apt-setup for the new
--add-architecture scheme; but the apt-setup/multiarch template does
exist and I think that at this point it would count as a bug-fix to make
it work properly.  Given that, you could at least boot the installer
with apt-setup/multiarch=i386.

I think that apt-setup/multiarch=i386 should be the default on amd64;
but I'm less sure that I could convince anyone that that deserves a
freeze exception.

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Colin Watson                                       [cjwatson@debian.org]