On 07-Feb-2001 Sebastiaan wrote: > Hi, > > last weekend, I was able to download pptp source from woody. Today I > discovered that it does not longer exists there > (dists/woody/main/source/net). > > The only place where I could find it was in the 'pool' directory on > ftp.debian.org. > > Why does this happen? Is this package upgrading or something? How can I > link things in a document when packages disappear? >
all packages post-potato live in pools. The old directory structure exists solely becuase long standing debian practice and software requires it. To find a package: a) look in the Packages.gz for the full path or b) go to pools/.... and look alphabetically.
