Re: Bug#126450: acknowledged by developer (Re: Bug#126450: apt: Puzzling behavior when package binary not available for architecture)
> > The amount of extra index data required to generate a message like this is
> > far to great to justify it. I'm pretty sure packages.debian.org has a
> > little reference to the available arches on the page someplace.
> No, actually, it doesn't. When one selects the download link from
> packages.debian.org, it always constructs an i386 link. I have to
> change the link manually to the architecture I need.
You should email the debian-www team and ask them about that, it might be
that i386 is the only link because that's the only arch it is avaiable
for.
> based on the architecture I'm running. I don't understand why this
> would take additional index space; the architecture is just
Because if a package does not exist on a given architecture it is not
idexed at all, and the indexes only contain data for a single arch. It is
not possible to tell which arch's a particular package is available for
with just the standard index data.
Jason
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