apt-ftparchive: How to generate Packages index file with newest package only?

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Subject: apt-ftparchive: How to generate Packages index file with newest package only?
From: Ingo Brückl <ib@wupperonline.de>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 2021 13:32:33 +0200
Message-id: <[🔎] 6141d9d4.479cff4a.bm000@wupperonline.de>

While dpkg-scanpackages includes only the newest package if more than one
version of a package is found, apt-ftparchive seems to include all versions.

Can it be configured to act like dpkg-scanpackages and omit older packages?

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