Comment 10 for bug 778054

multiarch-support
Transitional package to ensure multiarch compatibility
It can be removed once nothing on the system depends on it.

The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
  folks-common wireless-regdb fonts-opensymbol libopenal-data libexttextcat-data libssl-doc fonts-droid activity-log-manager-common
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  {{ tons of packages here, more than thousands, too many to list }}
WARNING: The following essential packages will be removed.
This should NOT be done unless you know exactly what you are doing!
  apt libapt-pkg4.12 (due to apt) libc6 (due to apt) libgcc1 (due to apt) libstdc++6 (due to apt) gnupg (due to apt) dpkg (due to apt) base-files base-passwd bash debianutils (due to bash) dash (due to bash) libtinfo5 (due to bash)
  bsdutils coreutils install-info (due to coreutils) libacl1 (due to coreutils) libattr1 (due to coreutils) libselinux1 (due to coreutils) diffutils libbz2-1.0 (due to dpkg) zlib1g (due to dpkg) tar (due to dpkg) xz-utils (due to dpkg)
  e2fsprogs e2fslibs (due to e2fsprogs) libblkid1 (due to e2fsprogs) libcomerr2 (due to e2fsprogs) libss2 (due to e2fsprogs) libuuid1 (due to e2fsprogs) util-linux (due to e2fsprogs) findutils grep gzip hostname login libpam0g (due to
  login) libpam-runtime (due to login) libpam-modules (due to login) mount libmount1 (due to mount) ncurses-bin perl-base python-minimal python2.7-minimal (due to python-minimal) sed lsb-base (due to util-linux) tzdata (due to
  util-linux) debconf (due to util-linux) libncurses5 (due to util-linux) libslang2 (due to util-linux)
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1621 to remove and 0 not upgraded.