Debian package management Overview

In this email to the ILUG, Justin Mason posted a very good overview of Debian package management. It covers all the usual suspects such as apt-get, apt-cache and dpkg, but also a few others I didn’t know about.
A little light reading later perhaps?
(While you’re waiting, you might like to poke a penguin!)

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