Hi All,
Following Daniel's retirement from the Debian Live project, a number of things
have become orphaned. This includes both software projects and services that
were previously provided by Daniel's server.
You will have noticed that the live.debian.net service disappeared. The big
things that people have had issues with are the live-build CGI frontend
disappearing and the hosted copies of live-manual disappearing.
We are currently in the process of setting up hosted copies of live-manual at:
http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
This is a work-in-progress and we ask that you are patient while we get this
sorted out. We only really have the git repository and the Debian packages to
go on, so we have to do a bit of figuring things out before we can get this
working.
If you'd like to track the progress with hosted copies of live-manual, you can
do that on Debian bug #807954. (http://bugs.debian.org/807954)
As for the live-build CGI frontend, this is not something that we are currently
working on. I personally do not feel that it is critical to the mission of the
Debian Live team, although I would support anyone that wanted to revive the
service.
You can find more details on this in Debian bug #807957. Please follow up there
if you are interested. (http://bugs.debian.org/807957)
Looking at packages maintained by the Debian Live team, there are a number of
generic packages that are relevant to Debian live images in general, and then
there are the live-build specific packages.
In the first category are: live-boot, live-config and live-tools. We will be
actively maintaining these packages going forward and ensuring that they remain
usable by both live-build and live-wrapper for as long as live-build remains in
the Debian archives.
No one has yet come forward to take over as a technical lead for live-build.
Daniel has removed himself as an uploader from this package. According to
Debian Policy §5.6.3, this leaves the package technically orphaned.
live-manual is also live-build specific, and while we do have people working on
the documentation side of things, live-manual would disappear if live-build was
to disappear. This package is also technically orphaned as per Policy §5.6.3
although we expect an upload for this package to happen soon.
live-wrapper is the area where I am going to be focussing the majority of my
efforts within Debian Live and this will be the tool used to produce the
official Debian live images when stretch is released. live-wrapper uses
live-boot, live-config and live-tools and the aim will be to support the
majority of the features that live-build supported. live-wrapper will however
not be a drop-in replacement and there is definitely a case to be made for the
continued development of live-build.
The following should help you find the resources at their new locations where
they have been moved from Daniel's server:
* Homepage: https://www.debian.org/CD/live
* Development Homepage: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/
* Development Documentation: https://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/
* Mailing List: debian-live@lists.debian.org
* Mailing List Archives: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/
* IRC: #debian-live on OFTC
* Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-live/
* VCS Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-live/
Thanks,
Iain.
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