Hi, On Monday 19 March 2007 07:44, Daniel Baumann wrote: > now that the new live-helper was done and uploaded last week (currently > in NEW), Marco and I decided that we don't want to support the old > live-package anymore. Understandable from a software developer point of view, but I think from a Debian (user) point of view, this is very unfortunate. Before live-package was removed from etch, one could say, "Debian etch now includes a tool, to automatically build live-cds. To try it out, just do 'sudo apt-get install live-package && sudo make-live'." This is not the case anymore :-( > Given that > > * live-package is only required on the build system and not in the > live system itself > > * we'll providing backports of live-helper and casper for Etch anyway That's easy for you and me, but for some people installing backports is a problem, be it a technological problem or an organisational problem (only allowed to use stable). > * building live systems with the newest build tool is better, > even if the release it is build off is Etch/stable. Why is it better? Is the result any different? live-package produced wonderful live-cds, maybe live-helper produces better ones, but the ones from live-package also work fine. > * live-package is not present in Sarge > we ask you to remove live-package from Etch. IMHO you just killed progress Debian made since Sarge. Any chance to revert this decission? I'm willing to help with the consequences... I'd start by adding a nice fat pointer in the README.Debian. regards, Holger
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