Debian Bug report logs - #998004
/usr/sbin/lpinfo: lpinfo: -U does not work despite saying so in the help

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Message #5 received at submit@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Roland Hieber <rohieb+debian-g9KN6FJU@rohieb.name>

To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit@bugs.debian.org>

Subject: /usr/sbin/lpinfo: lpinfo: -U does not work despite saying so in the help

Date: Thu, 28 Oct 2021 14:51:42 +0200

Package: cups-client
Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
Severity: normal
File: /usr/sbin/lpinfo

Dear Maintainer,

I tried using lpinfo with a hostname and a user name, but it complains:

    $ lpinfo -h gutenberg.mydomain -U myuser -l -v
    lpinfo: Unknown option "U".
    Usage: lpinfo [options] -m
	   lpinfo [options] -v
    Options:
    -E                      Encrypt the connection to the server
    -h server[:port]        Connect to the named server and port
    -l                      Show verbose (long) output
    -m                      Show models
    -U username             Specify the username to use for authentication
    -v                      Show devices
    --device-id device-id   Show models matching the given IEEE 1284 device ID
    --exclude-schemes scheme-list
			    Exclude the specified URI schemes
    --include-schemes scheme-list
			    Include only the specified URI schemes
    --language locale       Show models matching the given locale
    --make-and-model name   Show models matching the given make and model name
    --product name          Show models matching the given PostScript product
    --timeout seconds       Specify the maximum number of seconds to discover devices

These two lines in the help seem to be conflicting:

  lpinfo: Unknown option "U".
[...]
  -U username             Specify the username to use for authentication

It does not matter where on the command line I put the -U, the outcome is
always the same, and I haven't figured out yet how to authenticate to
the server with a different user name.

Cheers,

 - Roland


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 11.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'unstable-debug'), (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable-security'), (500, 'stable-debug'), (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-7-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_OOT_MODULE, TAINT_UNSIGNED_MODULE
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages cups-client depends on:
ii  adduser      3.118
ii  cups-common  2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii  libc6        2.31-11
ii  libcups2     2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1

cups-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-client suggests:
ii  cups       2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii  cups-bsd   2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
ii  smbclient  2:4.13.5+dfsg-2

-- no debconf information

Message #10 received at 998004@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Brian Potkin <claremont102@gmail.com>

To: Roland Hieber <rohieb+debian-g9KN6FJU@rohieb.name>, 998004@bugs.debian.org

Cc: control@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Re: Bug#998004: /usr/sbin/lpinfo: lpinfo: -U does not work despite saying so in the help

Date: Sun, 14 Aug 2022 14:49:53 +0100

forwarded 998004 https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues/453
thanks


On Thu 28 Oct 2021 at 14:51:42 +0200, Roland Hieber wrote:

> Package: cups-client
> Version: 2.3.3op2-3+deb11u1
> Severity: normal
> File: /usr/sbin/lpinfo
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> I tried using lpinfo with a hostname and a user name, but it complains:
> 
>     $ lpinfo -h gutenberg.mydomain -U myuser -l -v
>     lpinfo: Unknown option "U".
>     Usage: lpinfo [options] -m
> 	   lpinfo [options] -v
>     Options:
>     -E                      Encrypt the connection to the server
>     -h server[:port]        Connect to the named server and port
>     -l                      Show verbose (long) output
>     -m                      Show models
>     -U username             Specify the username to use for authentication
>     -v                      Show devices
>     --device-id device-id   Show models matching the given IEEE 1284 device ID
>     --exclude-schemes scheme-list
> 			    Exclude the specified URI schemes
>     --include-schemes scheme-list
> 			    Include only the specified URI schemes
>     --language locale       Show models matching the given locale
>     --make-and-model name   Show models matching the given make and model name
>     --product name          Show models matching the given PostScript product
>     --timeout seconds       Specify the maximum number of seconds to discover devices
> 
> These two lines in the help seem to be conflicting:
> 
>   lpinfo: Unknown option "U".
> [...]
>   -U username             Specify the username to use for authentication
> 
> It does not matter where on the command line I put the -U, the outcome is
> always the same, and I haven't figured out yet how to authenticate to
> the server with a different user name.

Thank you for your report, Roland.

The output from your command is correct behaviour; see the manual.
The Usage output is not correct. I have sent a report to upstream.

Regards,

Brian.

Message #19 received at 998004-close@bugs.debian.org (full text, mbox, reply):

From: Debian FTP Masters <ftpmaster@ftp-master.debian.org>

To: 998004-close@bugs.debian.org

Subject: Bug#998004: fixed in cups 2.4.7-1

Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2023 22:34:43 +0000

Source: cups
Source-Version: 2.4.7-1
Done: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
cups, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 998004@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de> (supplier of updated cups package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Format: 1.8
Date: Fri, 06 Oct 2023 20:16:49 +0200
Source: cups
Architecture: source
Version: 2.4.7-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Debian Printing Team <debian-printing@lists.debian.org>
Changed-By: Thorsten Alteholz <debian@alteholz.de>
Closes: 954974 971625 998004 1008053 1009146 1009147 1039983 1041466 1043331 1043470 1052419
Changes:
 cups (2.4.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 .
   * Update to new upstream version 2.4.7.
     (Closes: #1039983   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #1041466   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #1043331   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #998004    this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #1008053   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #1009146   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
     (Closes: #1009147   this should have been fixed in 2.4.3)
   * debian/watch: update watch file (Closes: #1043470)
                   (thanks a lot to t3b4in+2gxh764v647us@cs.email)
   * debian/rules: switch on testing again
   * debian/control: bump standard to 4.6.2 (no changes)
   * debian/cups-daemon.NEWS: reword last entry (Closes: #1052419)
                              (thanks to IOhannes m zmoelnig)
   * debian/local/apparmor-profile: add drop-in for cups-pdf as well
                                    (Closes: #954974)
   * Provide a cups.pc file. (Closes: #971625)
     (thanks a lot to Helmut Grohne for the patch)
   * update debian/*.lintian-overrides and use new syntax
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