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71. By Till Kamppeter on 2011-03-17

* New upstream release
   - Added custom page size to the most-used PageSize option entries, so
     that most Foomatic-generated PPD files get the possibility to select
     a custom page size. We do this as we do not know the complete sets of
     possible page sizes for most printers and probably many actually allow
     custom page sizes by hardware (LP: #726397).

70. By Till Kamppeter on 2011-02-18

* New upstream release
   - Added support for new printers from Lexmark and Epson.
   - Corrected some Epson printer entries.
   - Corrected all PPD files from Ricoh and OEM: Renamed 11x17 to Tabloid
     and HalfLetter to Statement, adapted naming scheme of installable
     options to CUPS, hardware collate for PCL-XL mode.
   - Corrected graphics and photo quality rating in the PCL-XL driver
     entries for Ricoh and OEM printers.
   - Added/corrected lots of device IDs for HP printers.
   - Removed unneeded executable bits from PPD files (Upstream bug #606).
   - General clean-up of the build system (Upstream bugs #609, #610, #611).
   - Fixed typos in README file (Upstream bug #608).

69. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-01-11

debian/control: Versioned conflict of openprinting-ppds-extra with
openprinting-ppds. Otherwise openprinting-ppds-extra is not installable.

68. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-12-17

* New upstream release
   - Added new PostScript printers and PPDs from Epson and Brother.
   - Added database entries for the PPDs of Epson's Japanese market
     printers.
   - Corrected the translation lines of Lexmark's PostScript PPDs to
     comply with the specs.
   - Renamed printers from Epson and Sharp so that their names match
     the names in the manufacturer-supplied PPD files.
   - Forced the "eplaser" and "eplaser-jp" drivers to feed Ghostscript
     only with PostScript input as these drivers have problems with PDF.
   - Added documentation for job parameter entities in Foomatic PPD files
     to the README file.
   - Fixed default PageSize choice of "necp2xX.upp" driver.

67. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-10-05

debian/local/pyppd/pyppd/ppd.py: Fixed PPD file list generated by the
compressed PPD file archive for the PostScript PPDs. The artificial
device IDs generated for PPDs without *1284DeviceID: entry lead to wrong
assumptions when system-config-printer selects the driver for a detected
printer (LP: #653814).

66. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-09-22

debian/local/pyppd/pyppd/: Updated to pyppd 0.4.9, to suppress runtime
error tracebacks by putting a "try: ... except ...: pass" construct around
the main function call. This avoids Apport pop-ups when the execution of the
self-extracting compressed PPD file archives gets stopped by the calling
process (LP: #618017).

65. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-09-15

debian/local/pyppd/pyppd/ppd.py, debian/local/pyppd/pyppd/pyppd-ppdfile.in:
Let the compressed PPD archives not contain duplicate PPD URIs, even if the
lines reference the same PPD. Most printer setup tools cannot cope with
duplicate PPD URIs.

64. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-09-15

* New upstream release
   - Update of all Ricoh and OEM PPD files by Ricoh, to introduce CMD:
     fields in the PPD's device IDs so that printer setup tools can select
     the PPDs by page description language (PCL or PostScript).

63. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-09-10

* New upstream release
   - Renamed the printers Toshiba GL-1010 and GL-1020 so that their
     names match the names in the manufacturer-supplied PPD files.

62. By Till Kamppeter on 2010-09-06

* New upstream release
   - Added Brother MFC-7840N/W printers (LP: #560518).
   - Added PCL driver support for all Sharp printers which were listed as
     only working via PostScript. For these printers PostScript is also
     an optional add-on and therefore one should be able to also set them
     up in PCL mode. The PCL mode will also be the recommended driver
     to assure that automatic setup of the printer works also if it has
     no PostScript module (LP: #378475).
* debian/patches/hl-2170w-pcl5e.patch: Removed patch with upstream fixes.