Comment 42 for bug 831768

> Packages from different architectures should definitely be displayed
> as individual packages because:
> ...

That was my reasoning also. This is much easier to implement and
practically already done.

> What if I care? What if I want to see, in a search result or a
> filtered view, both native and neutral architecture packages and to be
> able to tell them apart from each other? Treating the neutral ones as
> if they were native ones should be a deault - like
> ?architecture(prefer-native) is - not a constraint.

Configuration item to always show the ':<arch>' bit. When enabled you
will have both ':NATIVE' and ':all' displayed.

Ideally, such an option will be implemented in APT and so also
respected by apt-get and others.