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Bug #776326: Epson LX-300+ printer is missing in Ubuntu foomatic-db, but this printer works fine with the ibmpro driver

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21. By Didier Raboud on 2012-05-24

* New upstream release.
  - Added Epson LP M5300.
  - Added Ricoh Aficio MP C3502
  - Removed relationships with "pxlmono" and "lj5gray" to Brother HL
    5250DN as they do not perform well with it.

* Recompressed the original tarball using `xz -6e`.
* Drop obsolete Replaces/Breaks/Conflicts against disappeared
  packages.

20. By Didier Raboud on 2012-03-26

* New upstream release.
   - Added Xerox Phaser 3160N. This printer does not work with SpliX but
     works as a PCL-XL printer with the "pxlcolor" driver (LP: #945294)
   - Added new printers from Ricoh and OEM.
   - Fixed driver names for Epson, Ricoh, Infotec, Gestetner, Lanier, NRG,
     and Savin printers.

* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.3 without changes needed.

19. By Didier Raboud on 2012-02-12

* New upstream release.
  - Added entries for new Epson, Ricoh, Infotec, Gestetner, Lanier, NRG, and
    Savin printers
  - Added "Resolution" option to "ibmpro" driver. Without specifying the
    resolution the driver does not work (Closes: #554769).
  - Assigned driver "ljetplus" instead of "ljet3" to the Panasonic
    KX-P4450, as only "ljetplus" actually works (Closes: #350319).

18. By Didier Raboud on 2011-12-06

* New upstream release
  - Added the KONICA MINOLTA versions of several Minolta laser printers to
    make them correctly auto-detected for everyone (LP: #889811).
  - Make sure all Xerox Phaser 6180 printers have correct declaration of
    mechanisms, in particular of color capabilities (Closes: #642960).
  - Assigned also PCL-5e drivers to the Samsung ML-2570 and recommended the
    PCL-5e driver "hpijs-pcl5e" as (at least some copies of) the printer has
    problems with the PostScript and PCL-XL drivers (LP: #855412).
  - Use the special PageSize option for dot-matrix printers for the Canon
    BJ-330, as it has a paper handling like a dot-matrix printer
    (LP: #854983).

* All patches have been merged upstream (see above); drop them.
* Replace explicit relationships on drivers by a recommendation on
  printer-driver-all to foomatic-db*.
* Update description to match the new printer-driver-* naming.

17. By Didier Raboud on 2011-09-26

* New upstream release
   - The Lexmark E120n does not work in PostScript mode when using
     generic PostScript PPD files. Updated comment and removed support
     by "Postscript" driver. Rated down to "Mostly" (LP: #802285).
   - Removed "Halftoning Algorithm" option, it does not work any more
     with current Ghostscript (LP: #659398).
   - Updated entry for the Lexmark E230: Added Device ID, support by
     PCL-5e drivers (LP: #821818).
   - Added the Brother HL-2070N (LP: #778620).

[ Till Kamppeter ]
* Add canon-bj-330-dot-matrix-page-sizes.patch:
  Use the special PageSize option for dot-matrix printers for the Canon
  BJ-330, as it has a paper handling like a dot-matrix printer
  (LP: #854983).
* Add samsung-ml-2570-recommend-hpijs-pcl5e.patch:
  Assigned also PCL-5e drivers to the Samsung ML-2570 and recommended the
  PCL-5e driver "hpijs-pcl5e" as (at least some copies of) the printer has
  problems with the PostScript and PCL-XL drivers (LP: #855412).

[ Didier Raboud ]
* Add Xerox-Phaser_6180_addcolor.patch:
  Make sure all Xerox Phaser 6180 printers have correct declaration of
  mechanisms, in particular of color capabilities (Closes: #642960).

16. By Didier Raboud on 2011-08-20

[ Till Kamppeter ]
* debian/rules: Make sure that NUMJOBS is always defined. Otherwise the
  command line of foomatic-compiledb gets messed up. Also use more standard
  directory names for the collection of pre-built PPDs.
* debian/foomatic-db-compressed-ppds.ppd-updater,
  debian/openprinting-ppds.ppd-updater: Content of the two files was the
  wrong way around. Corrected.

15. By Didier Raboud on 2011-08-19

* Replace the PPD-updater postinsts by CUPS' triggers.
  - Breaks against too old cups versions.
  - Add ppd-updater files, to trigger with parameters.
* Use the new dh_pyppd.
  - Version Build-Depends to pyppd.
  - Install PPDs to the packages before the dh_pyppd calls.
  - Replace explicit Depends by ${misc:Depends}.
* Drop the now-unnecessary tweak for better PPDs compression.
* Install pre-processed PPDs directly in the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds
  directory.
  - This spares one big move of too many files.
* Compile the PPDs with no more jobs than specified in DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS,
  per policy.

14. By Didier Raboud on 2011-08-03

* New upstream release
   - Added 8 new Epson inkjet printers, 6 new Lexmark printers, and
     5 new printers from Ricoh and OEM, entries and PPD files
     supplied by the printer's manufacturers.
   - Added the Epson LX-300+ and the Dell 3000cn based on user reports
     (LP: #776326).
   - Added "-dNOINTERPOLATE" to the Ghostscript command lines, as this makes
     Ghostscript significantly faster (LP: #668800, Ghostscript bug #691755).
   - Renamed the choice names of the manufacturer-independent "InputSlot"
     options to not use tray numbers any more as the tray numbering varies
     with the manufacturer (Closes: #530600).
   - Fixes in the XML schema files which describe the format of the Foomatic
     XML files.
   - Install the XML schema files, to be used by the new foomatic-verify-xml
     utility in foomatic-db-engine.
   - Several fixes in the Foomatic XML files, many discovered during the
     development work on foomatic-db-engine in the Google Summer of Code.

[ Till Kamppeter ]
* debian/foomatic-db.install: Include XML schema files in the foomatic-db
  package.
* debian/rules: Moved apport hook into the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds
  package as this package is usually installed.

[ Didier Raboud ]
* Merge from Ubuntu:
  - Drop foomatic-db-xml leftovers.
  - Document and clean the dependencies around -db-xml.
* Uploaders update:
  - Drop Chris Lawrence, with his consent and great thanks for the 6 years
    of work on foomatic-db.
  + Add Till Kamppeter.

13. By Didier Raboud on 2011-06-17

* New upstream release
  - Renamed choices of the manufacturer-independent "InputSlot" options so
    that they do not use tray numbers any more. The tray numbering varies
    from manufacturer to manufacturer (Closes: #530600).
* Add c2esp as suggestion to foomatic-db-* as it went out of NEW.

12. By Didier Raboud on 2011-05-20

* New upstream release
  - Added Brother HL-2040 (LP: #768727).
  - Added the new "rastertosag-gdi" driver and the printers which use it:
    Ricoh Aficio SP 1000S and SP 1100S (LP: #700141).
  - Added custom page size to the PageSize option of many drivers. Most
    printers are capable of taking arbitrary page sizes and in addition, we
    cannot be sure that we have enumerated all possible page sizes for all
    printers (LP: #726397).
  - Added new "c2esp" driver entry for Kodak inkjet printers and some Kodak
    inkjets which possibly work with this driver.
  - Added 88 new Postscript and 76 new PCL-XL PPD files for Ricoh Family
    Group.
  - Updated 629 existing PCL-XL PPD files to add new paper size support.
* Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.2.0 without changes needed.