Greetings, On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <i...@debian.org> wrote:
> Hi, > > It is worth noting that live-build is not a Debian project, it is an > external project that claims to be an official Debian project. This is > something that needs to be fixed. > > There is no namespace issue, we are building on the existing live-config > and > live-boot packages that are maintained and bringing these into Debian as > native projects. If necessary, these will be forks, but I'm hoping that > won't have to happen and that we can integrate these packages into Debian > and continue development in a collaborative manner. > > In my opinion there is a namespace issue. > live-build has been deprecated by debian-cd, and live-build-ng is > replacing it. In a purely Debian context at least, live-build is > deprecated. > live-build-ng is being developed in collaboration with debian-cd and D-I. > > Just because it has been deprecated by the debian-cd team, does that imply it is deprecated by all Debian users? Again the simple solution to select a new namespace does not seem that complicated. > I'm aware that I'm going to be upsetting people, but this has been a long > time coming and I'm not going to spend time bikeshedding over naming. I > would rather spend that time on integration of live image creation into > official Debian infrastructure and building the best system for live image > creation possible. > > Consider this thread marked as wontfix. > > Hmm that saddens me. > Thanks, > Iain. > > -- > >
