5장. 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.

2003년 11월 19일 17:00 UTC를 시작으로 버그 추적, 메일링 목록, 보안 및 웹 검색을 위한 프로젝트의 주요 웹 서버 4대가 망가졌다. 서비스는 검사를 위해 철거되었고 다행히도 패키지 보관소가 이러한 절충의 영향을 받지 않았음을 확인할 수 있었다. 11월 25일, 모든 서비스가 복구되고 다시 온라인으로 돌아왔다.