diff -ur gawk-3.1.8+dfsg.orig//debian/control gawk-3.1.8+dfsg/debian/control
--- gawk-3.1.8+dfsg.orig//debian/control	2012-03-27 18:32:14.000000000 +0100
+++ gawk-3.1.8+dfsg/debian/control	2012-03-27 18:33:35.000000000 +0100
@@ -11,6 +11,7 @@
 Provides: awk
 Pre-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
 Depends: ${misc:Depends}
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Description: GNU awk, a pattern scanning and processing language
  `awk', a program that you can use to select particular records in a
  file and perform operations upon them.