I am working thru the "Debian New Maintainers Guide" and I've built a preliminary package of jedit... a .changes file has not been created for me during the dpkg-buildpackage phase of the initial build... not sure why ... so I cant use lintian on it to...obviously... ..any info you could provide would be helpfull... ..what might I not understand / have forgotten.. ..i'm not sure what info is relevent to give you guys/gals -dave