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Who maintains dpkg?
Who maintains dpkg?
Posted Mar 18, 2008 19:17 UTC (Tue) by paravoid (subscriber, #32869)Parent article: Who maintains dpkg?
One important point that the article fails to mention is that Ian Jackson is a long-standing member of the technical committee.
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Who maintains dpkg?
Posted Mar 18, 2008 19:54 UTC (Tue) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
Yeah, and the "_ian" part of Debian :-) [for the humour-impaired: the inclusion of this (obvious, veridical) fact is the joke]
Who maintains dpkg?
Posted Mar 18, 2008 20:02 UTC (Tue) by tbm (subscriber, #7049) [Link]
No, that's Ian Murdock
Who maintains dpkg?
Posted Mar 18, 2008 22:52 UTC (Tue) by vmole (subscriber, #111) [Link]
And Ian M. was also the first author of dpkg, although that implementation was in Perl. Ian J.'s C implementation was a huge step forward.
Who maintains dpkg?
Posted Mar 19, 2008 16:13 UTC (Wed) by hummassa (subscriber, #307) [Link]
yeah, my bad. dpkg Ians mixup.