Project Summary
Debian's PacKaGe manager
In a Nutshell, dpkg...
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has a well established, mature codebase
maintained by a large development team
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took an estimated 23 years of effort (COCOMO model)
starting with its first commit in September, 1986
ending with its most recent commit 21 days ago
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