Yesterday there have been many mails on the debian-live mailing list. A few people entered a bug that announced a new piece of software called ‘live-build-ng’. The author of ‘live-build’, Daniel, complained about the name, because it is very close to the name of his package. Then the people behind the new package explained that ‘live-build-ng’ will replace ‘live-build’ in the near future, as the name already suggests. This disappointed Daniel so much, that he announced the end of the ‘live-build’ project. You can find his full post on the mailing list (or in his temporary blog).

I would like to say thank you to Daniel, who made a great job in inventing and developing ‘live-build’! I feel very sad, that a few people attack a project leader who spent a huge amount of time to develop ‘live-build’ in such a way. They have no right to do that and there is no reason to choose a package name like ‘live-build-ng’ instead of attacking Daniel.

We will see what tool chain I will use for efaLive in the future. Maybe there will be a fork of the original ‘live-build’ project.

I wish all the best to Daniel. I hope you recover from this demotivating situation soon. Thank you!