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.