Bug#175905: apt: -s indeed does lots

["Dan Jacobson" <jidanni@dman.ddts.net>]

Package: apt
Version: 0.5.4
Severity: minor
File: /usr/bin/apt-get

regarding the man page
       --no-act
              No  action;  perform a simulation of events that would occur but
              do  not  actually  change  the  system.    Configuration   Item:
              APT::Get::Simulate.

Indeed it apparently does do lots... goes onto the network, etc.
Therefore the manpage should mention the things it does do.

              Simulate  prints  out  a series of lines each one representing a
              dpkg operation, Configure (Conf), Remove (Remv), Unpack  (Inst).
              Square  brackets  indicate broken packages with and empty set of
              square brackets  meaning  breaks  that  are  of  no  consequence
              (rare).

Apparently this means that it doesn't actually install packages... Ok,
but still please mention the things that it does do...


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
Architecture: i386
Kernel: Linux debian 2.4.19-k7 #1 Sun Oct 6 20:29:56 EST 2002 i686
Locale: LANG=zh_TW.Big5, LC_CTYPE=zh_TW.Big5

Versions of packages apt depends on:
ii  libc6                        2.2.5-15    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libstdc++2.10-glibc2.2       1:2.95.4-12 The GNU stdc++ library

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