Re:An Abrupt End to Debian Live
by Paul_S on Tuesday November 17, 2015 @07:30PM
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I always thought that debian's highly complex bureaucracy would keep things like this from happening and make it the immortal distro you can rely on but this is one in the series and I'm reconsidering my opinion. Maybe despite the rock solid processes it's still just a bunch of guys writing code and having arguments like any other project.
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It's kept me away from maintaining any packages, that's for sure.
Debian has rules, but it's pretty decentralised. These sorts of things are always going to occur when you're dealing with 1000+ individuals (sometimes with different goals).
Debian is not without drama, but a lot of work happens without any drama at all, and as a result, you don't hear about it.
As other sources have claimed, "Debian Live" has for some time not been a Debian project at all. It was fairly strongly bypassing the bureaucracy, and most of the outspoken users seem to be people using it for downstream distributions.
The existence of live-wrapper (formerly "live-build-ng") can be seen as a way of regularizing this situation, by writing software that the Debian CD and boot teams can rely upon and is strictly better than Debian Live for official Debian purposes. "Debian Live" was not providing needed features.