Well, too late does that same guy realise that things have gone pear shaped!

He's gone from "this has been a long time coming" and "consider this thread marked as wontfix" to the below:

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?msg=155;bug=80...

  original aim for this was that this new tool would be integrated 
  into the existing Debian Live project, and that we would bring 
  the Debian Live project into Debian. This is not the way it 
  has gone.

Except that is not what he wrote. He didn't say anything about integrating into the project. Instead he said the project a. Wasn't an official Debian project (when actually it does look like it was), and b. They were about to deprecate the entire project!

I have to call bullshit on this one. There was never any intent to integrate with the project.

That's one dishonest email!

> Wasn't an official Debian project (when actually it does look like it was)

There were no Debian Developers involved in Debian Live of late, because Daniel (somehow -- I don't care for the drama) got removed as a Debian Developer. I don't know for sure, but I would totally believe that it was officially a Debian project in 2006 but was not in 2015.

As a Debian Live user, this situation was quite a bit confusing: the only Debian-related URL it had was live.debian.net (in the debian.net namespace that any Debian developer can request a DNS record for, pointing anywhere), and it really seemed to live on live-systems.org, which pointed to the same servers.

Sadly, it sounds like the e-mail you get from mangers when they want you to keep working until your replacements are ready to discard you properly. I agree with you that those two e-mails say totally different things.

Sadly the Linux ecosystem seems to be getting a whole lot of that managerial double talk lately.