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Bug#980490: marked as done (cups-client: Documentation for lp is very incomplete)

Your message dated Thu, 21 Jan 2021 17:34:47 +0000
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and subject line Re: Bug#980490: cups-client: Documentation for lp is very incomplete
has caused the Debian Bug report #980490,
regarding cups-client: Documentation for lp is very incomplete
to be marked as done.

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Package: cups-client
Version: 2.3.3op1-7
Severity: normal
Tags: upstream
X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com

Dear Maintainer,

	The manual pages for lp(1) and other cups command
	lack documentation for many options.
	I installed my new printer today,
	and I was trying different things to make it work
	for my preferences, such as collating copies,
	but I found no help in the manual pages.

	There's an option '-o collate=true' for that,
	which I found in some forum,
	but I couldn't find it in the manual.
	And I could test that the option works.

	I wouldn't mind helping in writing the pages,
	if someone could compile the information that is missing.

	Thanks,

	Alex

	--
	Alejandro Colomar
	Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
	http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/

-- System Information:
Debian Release: bullseye/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU threads)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled

Versions of packages cups-client depends on:
ii  adduser      3.118
ii  cups-common  2.3.3op1-7
ii  libc6        2.31-9
ii  libcups2     2.3.3op1-7

cups-client recommends no packages.

Versions of packages cups-client suggests:
ii  cups       2.3.3op1-7
pn  cups-bsd   <none>
pn  smbclient  <none>

-- no debconf information

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On Tue 19 Jan 2021 at 20:05:17 +0100, Alejandro Colomar wrote:

> Package: cups-client
> Version: 2.3.3op1-7
> Severity: normal
> Tags: upstream
> X-Debbugs-Cc: alx.manpages@gmail.com
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> 	The manual pages for lp(1) and other cups command
> 	lack documentation for many options.
> 	I installed my new printer today,
> 	and I was trying different things to make it work
> 	for my preferences, such as collating copies,
> 	but I found no help in the manual pages.
> 
> 	There's an option '-o collate=true' for that,
> 	which I found in some forum,
> 	but I couldn't find it in the manual.
> 	And I could test that the option works.
> 
> 	I wouldn't mind helping in writing the pages,
> 	if someone could compile the information that is missing.

Thank you for your report, Alejandro.

The contents of lp(1) have changed since buster's 2.2.10-6+deb10u3.
Quite when the change happened, and why, took some tracking down. It
took place in CUPS v2.3b6, probably as a result of Issue #5340.

  https://github.com/apple/cups/issues/5340

'-o collate=true' is not the only common job option affected. I am not
at all sure why the change took place but would guess that upstream
wants lp(1) to refer to IPP attributes. Note that collate and other
job options are still documented at

  http://localhost:631/help/options.html?TOPIC=Getting+Started

Whatever the reason, I am fairly certain that the Debian CUPS
maintainer would not want to package an lp(1) significantly differing
from upstream's. Thanks for your offer, but, on that basis, I am
closing this report.

You may, of course, query Debian's upstream at

  https://github.com/OpenPrinting/cups/issues

Regards,

Brian.

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