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Bug still present in 14.04. All packages that provide myspell-
dictionary, aspell-dictionary, ispell-dictionary or hunspell-dictionary
should have "Multi-Arch: foreign" mark or you can't install
libenchant1c2a:i386 on your *Ubuntu amd64.

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Title:
  should be "Multi-Arch: foreign" to satisfy deps when installing a
  foreign architecture pkg

Status in “aspell-en” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  I wanted to install coq:armel on Ubuntu 12.04 armhf system
  (https://answers.launchpad.net/ac100/+question/218291 ), it depended
  transitively on libenchant1c2a:armel, but aspell-en was an obstacle
  (although I have it installed in my armhf system):

  # apt-get install libenchant1c2a:armel
  Reading package lists... Done
  Building dependency tree       
  Reading state information... Done
  Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
  requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
  distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
  or been moved out of Incoming.
  The following information may help to resolve the situation:

  The following packages have unmet dependencies:
   libenchant1c2a:armel : Depends: aspell-en:armel but it is not installable or
                                   myspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable or
                                   aspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable or
                                   ispell-dictionary:armel or
                                   hunspell-dictionary:armel but it is not installable
  E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.
  # 

  Can't the aspell-en package be labelled "Multi-Arch: foreign" to
  satisfy deps when installing a foreign architecture pkg?

  (A workaround could be editing /var/lib/dpkg/{status,available} and
  /var/lib/apt/Packages*, like described in
  http://unix.stackexchange.com/a/60287/4319 for emacsen-common.)

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