#807986 apt: error message of unrecognized command suboptimal

Package:
apt
Source:
apt
Description:
commandline package manager
Submitter:
Mattia Rizzolo
Date:
2015-12-15 04:00:05 UTC
Severity:
minor
#807986#5
Date:
2015-12-15 03:56:08 UTC
From:
To:
Today it took me 3 tentatives, a lot of writing, a huge amount of lost
time to download 3 packages from experimental!

kidding ;), but I'd have prefer if the "unrecognized command" error was
triggered by the first command...

what I'm talking about:
mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod -t experimental distcc distcc-pump distccmon-gnome
E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not understood in combination with the other options.
100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod distcc distcc-pump distccmon-gnome -t experimental                                                                :(
E: Command line option 't' [from -t] is not understood in combination with the other options.
100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt downlaod distcc/experimental distcc-pump/experimental distccmon-gnome/experimental                                         :(
E: Invalid operation downlaod
100 mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc % apt download distcc/experimental distcc-pump/experimental distccmon-gnome/experimental                                         :(
Get:1 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distcc amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [466 kB]
Get:2 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distcc-pump amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [351 kB]
Get:3 http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian experimental/main amd64 distccmon-gnome amd64 3.2~rc1-2 [253 kB]
Fetched 1,070 kB in 10s (98.3 kB/s)
mattia@chase ~/devel/NMU/distcc %