Well, Aptitude can't tell the difference between the architectures - so
it's possible the packages may not have need to be removed.  I had the
same problem which aptitude wanted to blow away practically my entire
system - it wanted to remove X and KDE, and everything that relied on
them, not the i386 versions of anything, but the actual AMD64 ones I
need and use daily - when I did the distribution upgrade a few weeks ago
and received notice of my first updates a few days later...  It took me
a few hours to get that all sorted with out blowing away my system.  But
given this bug and bug 831768, I feel that Aptitude in it's current
state can be a very dangerous tool to use to use on a daily basis, which
is bad in my case as I use it because I find it's clean, easy, and very
powerful tool that keeps my system lean and mean.

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  does not indicate foreign architecture when mentioning removal of non-
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