Broken package header for MongoDB 4.0 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial

Ops and Admin Installation & Upgrades
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Hello,

The install packages for ubuntu are broken (at least for Xenial), we cannot deploy it on our servers.

The issue in the tracker was closed, but still wasn’t fixed:
https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-46938

running:

echo “deb [ arch=amd64,arm64 ] https://repo.mongodb.org/apt/ubuntu xenial/mongodb-org/4.0 multiverse” | sudo tee /etc/apt/sources.list.d/mongodb-org-4.0.list
sudo apt-get update

produces

E: Encountered a section with no Package: header
E: Problem with MergeList /var/lib/apt/lists/repo.mongodb.org_apt_ubuntu_dists_xenial_mongodb-org_4.0_multiverse_binary-amd64_Packages
E: The package lists or status file could not be parsed or opened.
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I’m getting the same thing on a debian repo at http://repo.mongodb.org/apt/debian/dists/stretch/mongodb-org/4.0/main/binary-amd64/Packages

It seems to be the last line: “dpkg-scanpackages: info: Wrote 90 entries to output Packages file.”

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