The --stats option in daemon mode seems to be misinforming

[riya461]

I am trying to sync a directory from one machine to another in periodic intervals via rsync daemon. While I was playing around, I observed that when using --stats flag, the Number of files deleted is showing 0 , though the file gets deleted (as the expectation) from destination.

root@machineA:~# rsync --archive --delete --delete-missing-args --info=progress2 --relative --itemize-changes --stats /var/src/ rsync://address/main
             0 100%   0.00kB/s   0:00:00 (xfr#0, to-chk=1/2)
*deleting  var/src/a
.d..t...... /var/src/
             0 100%   0.00kB/s   0:00:00 (xfr#0, to-chk=0/2)
 
Number of files: 2 (dir: 2)
Number of created files: 0
Number of deleted files: 0
Number of regular files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 0
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 103
Total bytes received: 34
 
sent 103 bytes received 34 bytes 91.33 bytes/sec
total size is 0 speedup is 0.00

I tried the same within a machine, syncing contents between two directories, and found that the data here is correct.

root@machineA:~# rm -rf src/a
root@machineA:~#  rsync --archive --delete --delete-missing-args --info=progress2 --itemize-changes --stats src/ dest/
*deleting   a
.d..t...... ./
              0 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00 (xfr#0, to-chk=0/1)

Number of files: 1 (dir: 1)
Number of created files: 0
Number of deleted files: 1 (reg: 1)
Number of regular files transferred: 0
Total file size: 0 bytes
Total transferred file size: 0 bytes
Literal data: 0 bytes
Matched data: 0 bytes
File list size: 0
File list generation time: 0.001 seconds
File list transfer time: 0.000 seconds
Total bytes sent: 58
Total bytes received: 31

sent 58 bytes  received 31 bytes  178.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

Is there any configuration to be set or is it an internal issue?