DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Tue, Mar 13, 2012 at 4:36 PM, Michael Hipp <michael at redmule.com> wrote:
> On 2012-03-13 6:31 PM, Lonni J Friedman wrote:
>> Hopefully you fine Ubuntu fans can help me with a miserable problem
>> I'm seeing on every 11.10 box I've got.  Any time I invoke psql (the
>> postgresql command line client) it spews the following warning:
>> DEB_HOST_MULTIARCH is not a supported variable name at
>> /usr/bin/dpkg-architecture line 214.
>
> No idea, sorry. I have several 11.10 boxes running pg and don't remember ever
> seeing such an error.
>
> Have you tried a complete uninstall/re-install of pg on some test box to see if
> that cleared it?

I've tried this now, and it had no impact.  As soon as I reinstall,
the breakage returns.