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On Debian’s Birthday, Raphael Hertzog Looks Back at dpkg

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Aug 16, 2012

Raphaël Hertzog, Debian nerd extraordinaire, celebrated by crunching some numbers from dpkg development over the years. He said that 146 people have contributed to dpkg over the years. There have been 6948 commits and “3133612 lines have been written/modified. Currently the dpkg source tree contains 28303 lines of C, 14956 lines of Perl and 6984 lines of shell.”
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