On Sat, 2002-09-07 at 19:46, Dan Jacobson wrote: > Package: dpkg > Version: 1.9.21 > Severity: minor > > In case you are a perfectionist: > dpkg --no-act --help was supposed to just tell us what it was going to > do (print a help list), not actually do it.
"--no-act" flags and the like generally define "action" as something that would visibly and permanently change the state of the computer; e.g. creating or deleting files, ejecting CDROMs, etc. So this is not a bug.
