Capítulo 5. Some Important Events

James Troup reported that he has been working on re-implementing the archive maintenance tools and switching to package pools. From this date, files are stored in a directory named after the corresponding source package inside of the pools directory. The distribution directories will only contain Packages files that contain references to the pool. This simplifies overlapping distributions such as testing and unstable. The archive is also database-driven using PostgreSQL which also speeds up lookups.

This concept of managing Debian's archives sort of like a package cache was first introduced by Bdale Garbee in this email to the debian-devel list in May of 1998.

Empezando a las 17:00 UTC del 19 de noviembre de 2003, cuatro de los principales servidores web del proyecto: seguimiento de fallos, listas de correo, seguridad y búsquedas web se vieron comprometidos. Los servicios se apagaron para su inspección y, afortunadamente, se pudo confirmar que el archivo de paquetes no se vio afectado por este compromiso. El 25 de noviembre todos los servicios se restauraron y volvieron a estar disponibles.