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foomatic-db (20111206-1) unstable; urgency=low


  * 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.

 -- Didier Raboud <email address hidden>  Tue, 06 Dec 2011 23:24:14 +0100

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Binary packages built by this source

foomatic-db: OpenPrinting printer support - database

 Foomatic is a printing system designed to make it easier to set up
 common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems).
 It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and
 your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files
 sent to the printer.
 .
 This package contains the printer database distributed by
 OpenPrinting for most common drivers. You will probably need
 the foomatic-db-engine package for this package to be useful.

foomatic-db-compressed-ppds: OpenPrinting printer support - Compressed PPDs derived from the database

 Foomatic is a printing system designed to make it easier to set up
 common printers for use with Debian (and other operating systems).
 It provides the "glue" between a print spooler (like CUPS or lpr) and
 your actual printer, by telling your computer how to process files
 sent to the printer.
 .
 This package contains all PPD files which can be generated from the Foomatic
 database as one small compressed archive. This reduces the disk space
 consumption compared to the Foomatic XML database vastly and in addition
 makes listing of all available PPDs and extracting the needed PPD much faster
 than using the Foomatic XML database.

openprinting-ppds: OpenPrinting printer support - PostScript PPD files

 This package includes a collection of free PostScript Printer Description
 files for PostScript (and clone) printers from various manufacturers, as
 distributed by OpenPrinting.
 .
 If you have non-PostScript printers, the foomatic-db-compressed-ppds (or
 foomatic-db and foomatic-db-engine), hplip, gutenprint, splix, foo2zjs,
 pxljr, min12xxw, and m2300w packages are the ones you need; this package
 won't be of much help to you.
 .
 Some manufacturers distribute PPD files for their printers under
 non-free licenses; those are not included in this package, but may be
 available from the manufacturer's website, included on a CD or
 other media with the printer, or downloadable from the OpenPrinting
 web site (even automatically if the printer setup tool supports it).

openprinting-ppds-extra: Transitional package

 This dummy package is provided for a smooth transition from the previous
 openprinting-ppds-extra package (the package's content is merged into
 openprinting-ppds). It may safely be removed after installation.