yt-dl does not create a download archive, when simulating

[ghost]

• I've verified and I assure that I'm running youtube-dl 2019.02.08

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• Read thoroughly the README including the FAQ and BUGS sections
• Searched the bugtracker for similar issues including closed ones
• Checked that provided video/audio/playlist URLs (if any) are alive and playable in a browser

What is the purpose of your issue?

• Bug report (encountered problems with youtube-dl)
• Other

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To reproduce this issue:

1. youtube-dl --download-archive ./pyptq/download-archive.txt -i -o "./pyptq/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" -f bestvideo+bestaudio https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencium/videos (channel has 6 videos)
2. rm ./pyptq/download-archive.txt
3. rm ./pyptq/Sciencium/20170216-IbpiovW507M.mp4
4. youtube-dl --download-archive ./pyptq/download-archive.txt -i -o "./pyptq/%(uploader)s/%(upload_date)s-%(id)s.%(ext)s" https://www.youtube.com/user/sciencium/videos --skip-download (or any other simulation option)
   The simulation honors, if there is a download archive, but it never adds to it.

• Expected result: the second youtube-dl command creates a new download archive, with downloaded videos inside it
• Current result: no file created

[dstftw]

This is expected behavior.

[ghost]

@dstftw
Do I need to create a feature request?
I need to generate a download archive (without downloading any new videos).
How would this expected behavior, --skip-downoad (just doesn't download videos) is not -s (doesn't touch the disk)?