Editing Dpkg (section)

==History==
The first attempt at a package management system for Linux was possibly the development of Stop[[alopecia|Alop]] by Greg Wettstein at the Roger Maris Cancer Center in Fargo, North Dakota. It provided inspiration for the creation of dpkg.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://linuxjournal.com/article/2804 | title=Linux in the Trenches|magazine=Linux Journal }}</ref><ref>[https://www.dpkg.org/history/ancient/README The dpkg shell implementation]</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.verycomputer.com/195_d4343843af185e14_1.htm | title=StopAlop 0.6 packaging/Installation facility available }}</ref>
dpkg was originally created by [[Ian Murdock]] in January 1994 as a [[Shell script]].<ref name="first-release">{{cite web|title=dpkg Shell implementation|url=https://www.dpkg.org/history/ancient/README|publisher=Dpkg Developers|access-date=2017-08-30}}</ref> [[Matt Welsh (computer scientist)|Matt Welsh]], Carl Streeter and [[Ian Murdock]] then rewrote it in [[Perl]],<ref>{{cite web|title=dpkg perl implementation|url=https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/plain/scripts/perl-dpkg.pl?id=1b80fb16c22db72457d7a456ffbf1f70a8dfc0a5|publisher=git (Dpkg Developers)|access-date=2015-03-09}}</ref> and then later the main part was rewritten in [[C (programming language)|C]] by [[Ian Jackson (computer programmer)|Ian Jackson]] in 1994.<ref>{{cite web|title=dpkg C implementation|url=https://git.dpkg.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/plain/main/main.c?id=1b80fb16c22db72457d7a456ffbf1f70a8dfc0a5|publisher=git (Dpkg Developers)|access-date=2015-03-09}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Akkerman|first=Wichert|title=dpkg history|url=http://www.wiggy.net/presentations/2001/DpkgEvolution/html/mgp00005.html|access-date=2017-08-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150207151202/http://www.wiggy.net/presentations/2001/DpkgEvolution/html/mgp00005.html|archive-date=2015-02-07}}</ref> The name ''dpkg'' was originally a shortening of "Debian package", but the meaning of that phrase has evolved significantly, as dpkg the software is orthogonal to the [[deb (file format)|deb package format]] as well as the Debian Policy Manual which defines how Debian packages behave in Debian.