Anyone one here know why the Debian packages machine is still out, with
not a word of explanation/timescale since the original announcement, and
no apparent discussion in the mailing lists? Or if there is, which of the
zillion debian mailing lists I should be looking at to find it? I was
woneering about switching to gentoo as an alternative and then discovered
they'd been hacked too - but at least their communication with the outside
world seems to work a bit better - I was rather amazed that debian seemed
to be so appalling at handling communications. They do, after all, have
a 'web site' - just a 'we hope to have this back up by next week' would
be something... ;-(