debian history

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Ben Pfaff wrote:
>      Here are some of the major Debian release milestones:
> 
>      0.01-0.90 were released between August 1993 and December 1993
>      0.91 released January 1994 (~30 developers, primitive packager)
>      0.93R5 released in March 1995 (dpkg makes its first appearance)

That history is incorrect, dpkg first appeared in 1994 as an sh script.
It was replaced in May 1995 with the current C version, and there was
a perl version in between as well (which can still be found in CVS).

Wichert.

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