It is currently maintained by: Guillem Jover <[email protected]> (2006-) and has previously been maintained by: Raphaƫl Hertzog <[email protected]> (2008-2015) Christian Perrier <[email protected]> (2006-2008) Frank Lichtenheld <[email protected]> (2006-2009) Brendan O'Dea <[email protected]> (2006-2007) Scott James Remnant <[email protected]> (2004-2005) Adam Heath <[email protected]> (2001-2003) Wichert Akkerman <[email protected]> (1999-2003) Ben Collins <[email protected]> (1999-2001) Daniel Jacobowitz <[email protected]> (1998) J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <[email protected]> (1998) James Troup <[email protected]> (1998) Nils Rennebarth <[email protected]> (1998) Klee Dienes <[email protected]> (1997) Guy Maor <[email protected]> (1997) Heiko Schlittermann <[email protected]> (1996) the C implementation of dpkg was originally written and maintained by: Ian Jackson <[email protected]> (1994-1998) based on the Perl implementation written and/or maintained by: Matt Welsh <[email protected]> (1994) Carl Streeter <[email protected]> (1994) Ian Murdock <[email protected]> (1994) Countless other people have contributed to dpkg (see THANKS) and provided code for which they claim copyright (see debian/copyright). Many thanks to them all.