Author: William Thompson Date: To: Dickenson, Steven CC: 'exim-users ML' Subject: Re: [Exim] FWIW: *Unofficial* Exim 4.14 packages for Debian 3.0 a ka stable aka Woody
> > What does "Debian's pool" mean? >
> Every Debian package is in a general pool for all releases. Each release
> then has a reference file that tells apt which package version in pool
> belongs to that release. Go to any Debian FTP server, and go to the pool
> directory. There you'll find every package in alphabetical directories.
> I'm not sure if every experimental package is in the pool, but all the
> stable, testing, and sid packages are there.
Good explanation. Apparently, experimental is in there as well.
However, their orginization is by source packages not binary packages. For
instance, mkisofs is in pool/main/c/cdrtools since it's made from the
cdrtools source.
