This seems like a really bad idea. Guillem made it clear on debian- devel that the multiarch implementation in Debian's new dpkg is different than what Ubuntu did. At this stage of the LTS, it seems prudent to only cherry pick fixes and then switch early in Q to the new implementation.
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