Ubuntu should be able to do it, as the multiarch spec was developed in collaboration [1]. I&#x27;m not sure how well-integrated it is with the rest of Ubuntu&#x27;s archive and infrastructure though (for example, Ubuntu first used a modified syntax in sources.list vs Debian&#x27;s dpkg --add-architecture approach [2]). My 80% figure is also just a wild guess, I&#x27;ve tried it very early and failed for some exotic packages, but right now I only use it for a few packages.<p>I understand what you mean about tightly integrated package dependencies, and for me Debian is the rare exception in that it mostly works. My main irk with it is that dpkg only allows one version of a package to be installed, so you end up with package names like gcc-4.9 to allow parallel installation. Or in your example, there&#x27;s a lua5.1, lua5.2 and lua5.3 in the archive -- but that doesn&#x27;t mean that every lua library is also available in all three versions.<p>But the package compatibility is still way better than ecosystems like Maven&#x2F;Gradle or Stackage, where dependencies can be so tightly coupled that you end up working around old bugs in one package, or new bugs in another.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;MultiarchSpec" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.ubuntu.com&#x2F;MultiarchSpec</a><p>[2] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Multiarch&#x2F;HOWTO" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;wiki.debian.org&#x2F;Multiarch&#x2F;HOWTO</a>