multistrap dependency is broken (multistrap version in repositories too old)

[Tom Wright]

$apt-cache showpkg pdebuild-cross | grep -i Dependencies -A 5
Dependencies:
2.2.17 - gettext-base (0 (null)) multistrap (2 2.1.9) fakeroot (0 (null)) pbuilder (0 (null)) xapt (5 2.2.17) svn-buildpackage (0 (null))
....

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/multistrap - version 2.1.6 (not 2.1.9)

http://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/pdebuild-crosshttp://packages.ubuntu.com/oneiric/pdebuild-cross - depends on multistrap 2.19

Evil workaround - download debian source code build binaries and install

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.10
Package: pdebuild-cross (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.0.0-12.20-generic 3.0.4
Uname: Linux 3.0.0-12-generic i686
ApportVersion: 1.23-0ubuntu3
Architecture: i386
Date: Wed Nov 2 00:01:58 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 9.10 "Karmic Koala" - Release i386 (20091028.5)
ProcEnviron:
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: emdebian-crush
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to oneiric on 2011-07-14 (110 days ago)

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[knut (mr-knut)]

still broken in precise

[Aapo Rantalainen (aapo-rantalainen)]

still broken in precise

Workaround works:
apt-get install multistrap
wget http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/multistrap/multistrap_2.1.20_all.deb
dpkg -i multistrap_2.1.20_all.deb
apt-get install pdebuild-cross