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

[Roland Hieber <rohieb+debian-g9KN6FJU@rohieb.name>]

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

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