[cups.development] [RFE] STR #4261: lp ignores silly options; should give error

Didier Raboud odyx at debian.org
Mon Jan 21 06:05:37 PST 2013


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This bug was reported on the Debian bug tracker and I think it is a valid
one:

http://bugs.debian.org/698615

Le lundi, 21 janvier 2013 07.37:17, Trent W. Buck a écrit :
> While dealing with an unrelated issue, I tried to type
> 
>     date | lp -n2 -o collate=true
> 
> but instead I typed
> 
>     date | lp -n2 --collate=true
> 
> AFAICT, lp silently ignored the bogus option.
> I would strongly prefer that it instead gave an error like this,
> possibly followed by a help synopsis of valid options.
> 
>     lp: illegal option -- -
> 
> In this case, because I didn't notice the typo, I ended up wasting a
> couple of hours trying to debug the pxlmono.ppd that (I thought)
> wasn't working as advertised :-(

Link: https://www.cups.org/str.php?L4261
Version:  -feature





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