--list-packets not entirely passive

[Anonymous]

The gpg man page says:
> --list-packets
>                 List only  the  sequence  of  packets.  This  is
>                 mainly useful for debugging.

However, if run on an encrypted ASCII armored file,
it asks for a passphrase and seems to decrypt
what it finds and reports the packets inside the
decryption.

It would be more natural (and consistent with
the documentation) if it only listed the sequence
of the packets it finds without actually doing anything.

GPG Fan