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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.
2002 m. lapkričio mėn. 20 d. apie 08:00 CET, Twente universiteto Tinklo operacijų centre (Network Operations Center (NOC)) kilo gaisras. Pastatas sudegė iki pamatų. Gaisrininkai prarado betkokią viltį išgelbėti serverių zoną. Be kitų dalykų čia buvo satie.debian.org serveris, kuris talpino abu, security ir non-US archyvus, o taip pat naujų paketų prižiūrėtojų (new-maintainer (nm)) ir kokybės užtikrinimo (quality assurance (qa)) duomenų bazes. Debian'as atstatė šias tarnybas klecker kompiuteryje, kuris nesenai buvo perkeltas iš JAV į Olandiją.
Starting 17:00 UTC on November 19th, 2003, four of the project's main Web servers for bug tracking, mailing lists, security and Web searches have been compromised. The services were taken down for inspection and fortunately it could be confirmed, that the package archive was not affected by this compromise. On November 25th, all services were recovered and back online.