XPost: linux.debian.maint.dpkg   
   From: gioele@svario.it   
      
   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]    
      
   Regards,   
      
   --   
   Gioele Barabucci   
      
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