Comment 1 for bug 727603

However, debootstrap 1.0.28ubuntu1 now creates the symlink before any of that. Anything that's debootstrapping natty needs to make sure to use at least this version.

The reason I don't like approaches such as 'mv /var/lib/dpkg/info/armel/* /var/lib/dpkg/info/ && rmdir /var/lib/dpkg/info/armel && ln -sf . /var/lib/dpkg/info/armel' (as you suggested on IRC) are that they're unsafe; a power failure in the middle of that will result in a corrupted dpkg database.