[Virtual-pkg-base-maintainers] Bug#556255: No migration path available from i686 installs to x86_64

[Andreas Kotes]

Package: base
Severity: important

When a system was installed using an i386/i686 installation there is no way to convert it to a x86_64 installation.

There should be.

P.S: maybe it would help if x86_64-arch systems would accept i386-arch packages, too ...
P.P.S: filed as https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/482860 as well