diff --git a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
index 659a03b0..fe026580 100644
--- a/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/RECIPE-API-CHANGELOG.md
@@ -1067,3 +1067,20 @@ Changes in next
 The DEPLOY_DIR_IMAGE path and artifacts naming changes introduced in
 13cb77dd (included in Isar v1.0) have been reverted. Deployment paths
 and artifact names are the same as pre-v1.0.
+
+### No building of arch=all packages when cross building
+
+Architecture all packages often cannot be built in cross mode, as the
+dependencies cannot be resolved in the foreign architecture. This especially
+applies to all packages which split their build dependencies into
+`Build-Depends-Arch` and `Build-Depends-Indep`. We already have logic
+in isar to built `DPKG_ARCH = "all"` packages non-cross, but this does not
+work for packages that generate both arch specific and arch all binary packages.
+
+We now explicitly disable building `arch=all` binary packages during cross
+compilation (this only affects packages that produce both architecture-specific
+and `arch=all` binary packages). Recipes for such mixed packages should append
+`-all` to the `arch=all` binary packages listed in `PROVIDES` (e.g.,
+`PROVIDES="foo-doc-archall"` for an `arch=all` binary package `foo-doc`).
+Consumers can then simply reference the package by its original name (e.g.,
+`foo-doc`).
diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
index c1c38184..500aaefe 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/dpkg.bbclass
@@ -109,8 +109,9 @@ dpkg_runbuild() {
 
     DSC_FILE=$(find ${WORKDIR} -maxdepth 1 -name "${DEBIAN_SOURCE}_*.dsc" -print)
 
-    sbuild -A -n -c ${SBUILD_CHROOT} --chroot-mode=schroot \
+    sbuild -n -c ${SBUILD_CHROOT} --chroot-mode=schroot \
         --host=${PACKAGE_ARCH} --build=${BUILD_ARCH} ${profiles} \
+        ${@'--no-arch-all' if 'cross' in isar_deb_build_profiles(d).split() else '--arch-all'} \
         --no-run-lintian --no-run-piuparts --no-run-autopkgtest --resolve-alternatives \
         --bd-uninstallable-explainer=apt \
         --no-apt-update --apt-distupgrade \
diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/multiarch.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/multiarch.bbclass
index cdd35f12..5f84fac2 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/multiarch.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/multiarch.bbclass
@@ -83,6 +83,10 @@ python multiarch_virtclass_handler() {
             for v in val.split():
                 if v.endswith('-compat') or v.endswith('-native'):
                     multiarch_var.append(v)
+                # dispatch -archall (arch=all) to native variant
+                if v.endswith('-archall'):
+                    if suffix == '-native':
+                        multiarch_var.append(v[:-len('-archall')])
                 else:
                     multiarch_var.append(v + suffix)
             d.setVar(var, ' '.join(multiarch_var))