[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

[Dan Kegel]

Oh, this is on ubuntu 15.10 (i.e. apt 1.0.10.2.ubuntu1), and probably all previous versions.
It does not seem to affect ubuntu 16.04 beta 1 (i.e. apt 1.2.3).

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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:
  New

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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