diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 8b00285bb..096a00378 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -12,6 +12,8 @@ cmake (2.8.7-4) UNRELEASED; urgency=low
     master). (Closes: #662982) Thanks to Simone Rossetto.
     Patch: backport_support_cxxtest4.diff
   * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3: no changes needed.
+  * Mark cmake Multi-Arch: foreign. The change was stolen from Ubuntu
+    cmake_2.8.7-0ubuntu3 package. Thanks to Steve Langasek.
 
  -- Modestas Vainius <modax@debian.org>  Fri, 16 Mar 2012 22:10:41 +0200
 
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 08b54f573..4aff32d92 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,6 +13,7 @@ Homepage: http://cmake.org/
 
 Package: cmake
 Architecture: any
+Multi-Arch: foreign
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, cmake-data (= ${source:Version}), procps [!hurd-any]
 Suggests: gcc, make
 Description: cross-platform, open-source make system