debian history

Ben Pfaff blp@cs.stanford.edu
14 Dec 2001 02:29:56 -0800


Wichert Akkerman <wichert@cistron.nl> writes:

> 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).

Hmm.  Is there a more accurate Debian history online somewhere
then?  That was the first helpful hit I got from Google on
debian.org.  It's not important, but now I'm curious.
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