Bug#110921: apt-get -ds strange habit

[Abel Daniel <abli@mailbox.hu>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.3

According to the man page, the -d option is for only downloading, but not installing or configuring the packages. Well, this is what I get:

hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -ds install masqmail
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim eximon 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  masqmail 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 51  not upgraded.
Remv eximon (3.31-1 Debian:testing)
Remv exim (3.31-1 Debian:testing) [at anacron mailx ]
Inst masqmail (0.1.15-1 Debian:testing)
Conf masqmail (0.1.15-1 Debian:testing)
hooloovoo:/home/abli# 

So it clearly wants to configure the package.

hooloovoo:/home/abli# uname -a               
Linux hooloovoo 2.2.17 #1 Sun Jun 25 09:24:41 EST 2000 i686 unknown
hooloovoo:/home/abli# dpkg -s libc6 | grep ^Version
Version: 2.2.4-1

O, yes, and when I actually want to do it:
hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -d install masqmail
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages will be REMOVED:
  exim eximon 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  masqmail 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 2 to remove and 51  not upgraded.
Need to get 87.9kB of archives. After unpacking 933kB will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] n
Abort.
hooloovoo:/home/abli# 
I just want to download the package, because I don't want to throw exim out. (I use a dialup and prefer configuring cmplex things like mail while offline)

Just to be really long:
hooloovoo:/home/abli# apt-get -d install glaxium    
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  glaxium 
0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 51  not upgraded.
Need to get 1183kB of archives. After unpacking 1864kB will be used.
Get:1 ftp://ftp.index.hu woody/main glaxium 0.3d-6 [1183kB]
Fetched 1183kB in 5m24s (3648B/s)                                              
Download complete and in download only mode
hooloovoo:/home/abli# 


abli
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