Bug#272557: provide NotAutomatic option

["Trent W. Buck" <trentbuck@gmail.com>]

David Kalnischkies wrote:
>> Are the maintainers waiting for a patch to be submitted?
>
> [...] apt-ftparchive doesn't have a maintainer currently who takes
> care of features and/or bugs and is therefore in (very) low
> maintenance mode [...]

OK, I didn't realize.

> [...] if you have a patch and/or you are willing to write one i will
> try to help you as much as possible to get it into the official
> version. Features like the recently added --arch option (in
> experimental) are the best example for it…

Thank you.  I've added this to my "copious free time" todo list, but
as it's a low-priority issue for me, I don't expect to address it
anytime soon.