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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.
20 ноября 2002, около 8 часов утра по центральноевропейскому времени в сетевом операционном центре университета Твенте начался пожар. Здание сгорело до основания. Пожарная служба прекратила попытки защитить серверную область. Среди прочих в сетевом операционном центра был размещён satie.debian.org, содержавший архивы security и non-US, а также базы данных new-maintainer (nm) и контроля качества (qa). Debian перестроил эти сервисы на хосте klecker, который был перенесён из США в Нидерланды.
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.