Postscript Printer Description file rejected as non-compliant?

Hi,
I wish to make some local changes to my printer description. I read in the documentation, that I would be advised to use a customization file.
I have tried to use the minimal example given in that document, but my OS (SuSE 11.3, via the YaST/CUPS utilities) rejects it as "non-complient"?
This is my customization file:
*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%My local customization file. Filename: custom.ppd
*Include: "default.ppd"
*%End of my customization file
The file referenced in the *Include: statement is in the same folder as the custom file (/etc/cups/ppd).
Any suggestions will be most welcome, Martin

Quite frankly, I don't know of any standard software that supports that feature of the PPD specification.
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