[Bug 1554223] Re: apt-get update fails with "Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file" on pure x86_64 repos

[Julian Andres Klode]

This is a bug on Chrome's site mostly. We made the design choice to
request all architectures configured and warn about missing ones. You
can tell APT to ignore archs for some sources in your sources.list
entry.

** Changed in: apt (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Opinion

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Title:
  apt-get update fails with "Unable to find expected entry
  'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file" on pure x86_64 repos

Status in apt package in Ubuntu:
  Opinion

Bug description:
  (ubuntu-bug wouldn't let me report bugs against apt, go figure.)

  I run my own apt repo for a third-party app, and I have to include a
  dummy i386 package to avoid an error from apt-get.

  Along comes Chrome's decision to desupport i386, and suddenly this problem matters to a lot of people,
  who are all seeing apt-get update fail with:

  W: Failed to fetch http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/deb/dists/stable/Release  Unable to find expected entry 'main/binary-i386/Packages' in Release file (Wrong sources.list entry or malformed file)
  E: Some index files failed to download. They have been ignored, or old ones used instead.

  While it would be easy for Google to include a dummy i386 package in
  their repo, it would be even better if apt-get didn't barf like this
  on pure 64 bit repos.

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