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Bug#704230: apt considers packages with Architecture: all as being of the native architecture



On Sat, Mar 30, 2013 at 09:51:34AM +0800, Daniel Hartwig wrote:
> Cross-grading an entire system is not a documented or supported
> procedure.  You could possibly still proceed as you intended, if you
> are adventurous.  It will take some encouraging of dpkg (lots of
> ‘--force-FOO’) and you will not receive support for the procedure
> here.

http://blog.zugschlus.de/archives/972-How-to-amd64-an-i386-Debian-installation-with-multiarch.html

describes a procedure that gets away without --force, but needs a lot
of "Yes, I understand this will break my system" and has yet only been
proven for a very basic system.

Greetings
Marc

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