A recap from someone who's not a Debian user but who read through the bulk of the threads: Debian Live has been around for 9+ years, and at least back in 2006

A recap from someone who's not a Debian user but who read through the bulk of the threads: Debian Live has been around for 9+ years, and at least back in 2006 was described as "an official sub-project" which seems supported by the existence of live.debian.net (at least from an outside-Debian perspective). Some folks on the debian-cd project, possibly unhappy with the level of support they were receiving re: UEFI or possibly just because they had a new shiny, decided to do a new (currently experimental) live CD building system based on some other tools. Note: still experimental. There's little evidence that the original debian-live folks knew anything about this new initiative, though some have reported that it was discussed in-person at conferences. While the new project was still in the experimental stage, one of the debian-cd developers decided to publish it as "debian-live-ng", and when politely called on it (see thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00003.html https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2015/11/msg00003.html) another of the Debian developers eventually came back and said (my translation) "[you're not an official Debian project even though you pretend to be, so we're proceeding as already stated. Consider your concerns marked 'wontfix'.]" The head of the Debian Live project, faced with this, announced that basically due to the release of its replacement with no prior notice, clearly debian-live had been supplanted so it was being shut down. There were some places in the past where Daniel Baumann (of debian-live) came off not so well, but in this case he politely pointed out "hey, you've just announced something that collides with our namespace" and got what seemed like an official "yes, we know. You're not needed anymore." Update: I recommend geofft's much more informed comments in this discussion