is anyone ever going to fix this major bug?

[Paul Smith]

On Tue, 2009-12-08 at 12:30 -0800, Brendan Miller wrote:
> This bug more or less makes apt-get unusable on 64 bit systems and has
> been in for a long time now:
> 
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/402833

Is this still a problem in Karmic?  I don't have that file on my system,
and a search of packages available doesn't give any package named
"ia32-libs-tools".

Not saying it shouldn't be fixed in Jaunty, I'm just wondering if
there's an issue in Karmic as well--if so I think it must be different
(different package names, etc.?) than the Jaunty issue.