Bug#319710: marked as done (apt-utils: [apt-ftparchive] option to only parse for $ARCH+all packages)

[Martin-Éric Racine <q-funk@iki.fi>]

>   * ftparchive/writer.{cc,h}:
>     - add --arch option for packages and contents commands
>     - if an arch is given accept only *_all.deb and *_arch.deb instead
>       of *.deb. Thanks Stephan Bosch for the patch! (Closes: #319710)

Sorry, no, having an extra switch called --arch does not accomplish
what I asked.

I asked for apt-ftparchive to be more intelligent when parsing the
configuration and generating the Packages list of each architecture it
finds, instead of generating identical Packages files for each
architecture. Having a switch to specify which architecture to parse
does NOT accomplish that.

Martin-Éric