Package: dpkg-dev Version: 1.23.5 Severity: wishlist Dear dpkg maintainer,
Running `dpkg-scanpackages --arch=amd64 dir/` generates a Packages file that includes both arch-amd64 and arch-all packages.
(This made sense previously because Debian and other derivatives did not have a `main/binary-all` binary path, just `main/binary-$arch`. And it probably still makes sense until bugs like #915948 [1] are fully resolved.)
However it would be nice to have a way to exclude arch-all packages while generating Packages files.
Could `--arch=foo` be modified to mean "strictly foo, without all"? Alternatively could a new option like `--arch-strict=foo` be introduced, if you believe that the old behavior should not change?
[1] <https://bugs.debian.org/915948> Regards, -- Gioele Barabucci
