Re: Why is Debian lagging so much behind Slackware?

[P Kirk]

Danie is absolutely right.  I'm pasting in from the HOWTO:

12.7 Installing DPKG
We don't install the Debian Package manger itself, but a small program that
is shipped with this package; the start-stop-daemon program. This program is
very useful in boot scripts so we're going to use it.