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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