"Travan" tape drive question

Hi - Just a little question, maybe someone knows the answer. Local computer vendors are advertising internal tape backup drive, made by various manufacturers, that are referred to as "travan" type drives. Are these the same as QIC? If not, can they be accessed via Linux? Any help would be very m

Need help creating a .deb package

Hi - I just volunteered to maintain a package for the jed editor. Last night I read all the documents in the doc/package-developer directory and when I was finished I realised that I still did not know how to create the .deb package. Is there some sort of step-by-step guide on how to do this? I