It is currently maintained by: Guillem Jover (2006-) and has previously been maintained by: Raphaƫl Hertzog (2008-2015) Christian Perrier (2006-2008) Frank Lichtenheld (2006-2009) Brendan O'Dea (2006-2007) Scott James Remnant (2004-2005) Adam Heath (2001-2003) Wichert Akkerman (1999-2003) Ben Collins (1999-2001) Daniel Jacobowitz (1998) J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) (1998) James Troup (1998) Nils Rennebarth (1998) Klee Dienes (1997) Guy Maor (1997) Heiko Schlittermann (1996) the C implementation of dpkg was originally written and maintained by: Ian Jackson (1994-1998) based on the Perl implementation written and/or maintained by: Matt Welsh (1994) Carl Streeter (1994) Ian Murdock (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.