It is currently maintained by:

	Guillem Jover <guillem@debian.org> (2006-)

and has previously been maintained by:

	Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog@debian.org> (2008-2015)
	Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> (2006-2008)
	Frank Lichtenheld <djpig@debian.org> (2006-2009)
	Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org> (2006-2007)
	Scott James Remnant <scott@netsplit.com> (2004-2005)
	Adam Heath <doogie@brainfood.com> (2001-2003)
	Wichert Akkerman <wakkerma@debian.org> (1999-2003)
	Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> (1999-2001)
	Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org> (1998)
	J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) <jdassen@wi.LeidenUniv.nl> (1998)
	James Troup <jjtroup@comp.brad.ac.uk> (1998)
	Nils Rennebarth <nils@debian.org> (1998)
	Klee Dienes <klee@debian.org> (1997)
	Guy Maor <maor@ece.utexas.edu> (1997)
	Heiko Schlittermann <hs@schlittermann.de> (1996)

the C implementation of dpkg was originally written and maintained by:

	Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (1994-1998)

based on the Perl implementation written and/or maintained by:

	Matt Welsh <mdw@sunsite.unc.edu> (1994)
	Carl Streeter <streeter@cae.wisc.edu> (1994)
	Ian Murdock <imurdock@debian.org> (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.