New printer driver packages: pxljr, m2300w, epsoneplijs

[Till Kamppeter]

These (and splix) are only some drivers for common winprinters. They do 
not take much space on the CD, but make many people's printers simply 
work out of the box.

The steps for auto-downloadable drivers for the Ubuntu site are:

- Patch CUPS (best do it upstream) to have a PPD path, which means a 
list of directories which are searched for PPDs in order. It could be 
controlled by cupsd.conf. For our new FHS standard for the PPD 
directories we should have

PPDPath /usr/local/share/ppd:/opt/share/ppd:/usr/share/ppd

This would assure that CUPS searches the PPDs in the right priority order

- Introduce printerdrake into Ubuntu, so that the auto-lookup 
funtionality can be added to printerdrake.

    Till


Martin Pitt wrote:
> Hi Till,
> 
> Till Kamppeter [2007-01-17 12:22 +0000]:
>> I have debianized some printer drivers which are neither part of Debian
>> nor of Ubuntu. With this I want to solve problems like shown in
> 
> One question, the printer-driver-autodownload spec talks about a
> generic source package which fetches data from freestandards.org, runs
> some tests on them and automtatically produces some debs from it.
> Instead of separately packaging new drivers in new hand-crafted source
> packages, what's the status of that?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Pitti