control file should include "Multi-Arch: foreign"

Bug #992797 reported by Ryan Smith-Roberts
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xdg-utils (Debian)
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xdg-utils (Ubuntu)
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Bug Description

Lack of such prevents installation of google chrome's :i386 package in amd64 precise.

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Ryan Smith-Roberts (rmsr) wrote :
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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote :

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tags: added: patch
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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

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

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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David Huggins-Daines (dhuggins) wrote :

There are multiple questions/complaints about this out there on the web. It prevents people from installing the 32-bit version of Google Chrome (or another browser) on 64-bit Ubuntu, which is the only easy way to get 32-bit Java applets to run. Many people need to do this in order to use broken closed-source software like WebEx at work. For example:

http://askubuntu.com/questions/191791/chrome-install-failed-on-ubuntu-12-04

Why people might want a 32 bit browser:

http://blog.romera.org/2012/03/09/make-webex-work-in-ubuntu-11-10-64-bit/
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=11757928
http://linuxsagas.digitaleagle.net/2012/05/18/ubuntu-1204-32-bit-java-browser-environment/

It is also mind-blowingly simple to fix and should have been done long ago.

Changed in xdg-utils (Debian):
status: Unknown → New
Changed in xdg-utils (Debian):
status: New → Fix Released
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Andrew Starr-Bochicchio (andrewsomething) wrote :

This is fixed in raring:

xdg-utils (1.1.0~rc1-2ubuntu7) raring; urgency=low

  * Mark as Multi-Arch: foreign (Closes: #688681, LP: #1123710)

 -- Scott Ritchie <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:37:26 +0100

Changed in xdg-utils (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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