diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 2ff6b85..4ea607c 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@ multistrap (2.1.22) experimental; urgency=low
 
   * Support marking dependencies as auto-installed using apt-mark.
     (Closes: #702036)
+  * Fix filehandle typo when configuring multiarch (Closes: #695843)
 
  -- Neil Williams <codehelp@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:21:56 +0000
 
diff --git a/multistrap b/multistrap
index 1a8b7de..aa7400a 100755
--- a/multistrap
+++ b/multistrap
@@ -210,9 +210,9 @@ if (($olddpkg == 0) and (scalar (@foreignarches) > 0)) {
 		}
 		close (MA);
 		open (VMA, ">${dir}${dpkgdir}arch");
-		print MA "$host\n";
+		print VMA "$host\n";
 		foreach my $farch (@foreignarches) {
-			print MA "$farch\n";
+			print VMA "$farch\n";
 		}
 		close (VMA);
 	}