Comment 4 for bug 1611922

I've attached a debdiff of the dpkg patch being discussed.

A couple of weeks ago I asked Adam Conrad by email, "Is this patch still needed in Ubuntu? Should it go into Debian?", and received the following reply.

"Yes, it's needed in Ubuntu. It would be needed in Debian if Debian
users ever built on machines with both armel and armhf binaries
installed (which happens on Ubuntu with gcc-multilib, because we
build a libc-armel and Debian doesn't).

If this is causing a build failure in Wine, Wine is buggy, not dpkg."