Comment 29 for bug 1300211

One (working ?) alternative we've successfully used here to workaround this weird game of whack-a-mole is to stop relying on gcc-multilib, and start using :i386 versions of packages. So for instance, we would install for example the following list of packages on an amd64 machine:

build-essential g++-aarch64-linux-gnu g++-arm-linux-gnueabihf libc6-dev:i386 libstdc++-7-dev:i386

granted the following has been run beforehand:

dpkg --add-architecture i386