This Debian package was created by Peter Eisentraut <petere@debian.org>
on 23 March 2005.

The source code was downloaded from <http://apt-rpm.org/releases/>.

Upstream authors:

  The project hierarchy stands at:

  CVS:jgg Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@debian.org>
  - The Mad Cow incarnate

  CVS:che Ben Gertzfield <che@debian.org>
  - Packaging and Releases

  CVS:bod Brendan O'Dea <bod@debian.org>
  - Perl Bindings

  CVS:tausq Randolph Chung <tausq@debian.org>
  - Patches, Fixes, Debugging, GUIs and Releases

  Past Contributures:

  Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com> - Project originator
  Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk> - DPKG documentation and ideas
  Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com> - Original GUI design
  Scott Ellis <storm@gate.net> - Original packaging and beta releases
  Branden Robinson <branden@purdue.edu> - Man Page Documentation
  Manoj Srivastava <srivasta@datasync.com> - 1st Generation FTP method and
                                           dselect setup script
  Adam Heath <doogie@debian.org> - 2nd Generation FTP method author
  Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org> - Initial RSH method
  Many other bug reports through the Debian Bug system

  NOTE: The ChangeLog generator will parse for names and email addresses. The
  'CVS:<name>' tag should indicate who this pair refers to.

  0.5.x-lorg version maintained by Panu Matilainen <pmatilai@laiskiainen.org>

  0.5 RPM port brought to you by
  Gustavo Niemeyer <niemeyer@conectiva.com>
  Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@conectiva.com.br>

  0.3 RPM port brought to you by
  Alfredo K. Kojima <kojima@conectiva.com.br>

  with consulting help from:
  Packaging: Ruda Moura <ruda@conectiva.com.br>
  Security: Andreas Hasenack <andreas@conectiva.com.br>
  Misc.: Claudio Matsuoka <claudio@conectiva.com.br>

  added user specified public keyring option for gpg, fixed a bug
  in the file method with authentication
          Alexander Bokovoy <ab@avilink.net>

  solaris portability fixes
          AUSTIN MURPHY <amurphy@nbcs.rutgers.edu>

Copyright:

  Apt is copyright 1997, 1998, 1999 Jason Gunthorpe and others.

  Apt is licened under the terms of the GNU General Public License (GPL),
  version 2.0 or later, as published by the Free Software Foundation.  See
  the file COPYING.GPL [included], /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL, or
  <http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.txt> for the terms of the latest version
  of the GNU General Public License.