Debindex was started at December 31th 2007. The first usable release was published at January 10th 2008 with about 30000 files checked.
With more and more distributions being based on the great debian foundation, I found finding the packages for new software harder and harder: everybody is doing packaging everywhere. More and more projects are hosting their own and these packages are not collected at one place.
debindex tries to collect the links to all these different distribution packages and project packages, to give you a better chance at finding an already created debian package.
Currently I'm working on a Firefox plugin called tattle which currently automatically submits any debian archive urls you find on the web. Please consider running this plugin to help me index your packages. The plugin is not completely done yet, because it needs to grow into a general "post on trigger" plugin so more people can use it for more different url types.
You can also manually add urls by posting them here: