Cannot install i386 Qt dev packages on amd64 system

[Dmitry]

$ sudo apt-get update
Get:1 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial InRelease [247 kB]
Hit:2 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-security InRelease
Hit:3 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-updates InRelease
Hit:4 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-backports InRelease
Get:5 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 Packages [1.183 kB]
Get:6 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main i386 Packages [1.178 kB]
Get:7 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main Translation-en [563 kB]
Get:8 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [635 kB]
Get:9 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/main DEP-11 64x64 Icons [404 kB]
Get:10 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 Packages [7.543 kB]
Get:11 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe i386 Packages [7.523 kB]
Get:12 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe Translation-en [4.361 kB]
Get:13 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [1.805 kB]
Get:14 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/universe DEP-11 64x64 Icons [7.448 kB]
Get:15 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 Packages [146 kB]
Get:16 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse i386 Packages [142 kB]
Get:17 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse Translation-en [107 kB]
Get:18 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse amd64 DEP-11 Metadata [7.840 B]
Get:19 http://by.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial/multiverse DEP-11 64x64 Icons [235 kB]
Fetched 33,5 MB in 25s (1.329 kB/s)
AppStream cache update completed, but some metadata was ignored due to errors.
Reading package lists... Done

$ sudo apt-get install qtbase5-dev:i386
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 qtbase5-dev:i386 : Depends: libgles2-mesa-dev:i386 but it is not going to be installed or
                             libgles2-dev:i386 but it is not installable
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

$ dpkg --print-foreign-architectures
i386

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: qtbase5-dev 5.5.1+dfsg-16ubuntu7
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.4.0-18.34-generic 4.4.6
Uname: Linux 4.4.0-18-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.1-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Fri Apr 15 21:43:15 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-04-15 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Beta amd64 (20160415)
SourcePackage: qtbase-opensource-src
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Pamela Fong (katsiki)]

This might be related to the problem I reported,
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/appstream/+bug/1601971