[Vmdebootstrap-devel] Bug#804315: Namespace issues

[Richard Nelson]

Greetings,

On Sun, Nov 8, 2015 at 5:45 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at debian.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> It is worth noting that live-build is not a Debian project, it is an
> external project that claims to be an official Debian project. This is
> something that needs to be fixed.
>
> There is no namespace issue, we are building on the existing live-config
> and
> live-boot packages that are maintained and bringing these into Debian as
> native projects. If necessary, these will be forks, but I'm hoping that
> won't have to happen and that we can integrate these packages into Debian
> and continue development in a collaborative manner.
>
>
In my opinion there is a namespace issue.


> live-build has been deprecated by debian-cd, and live-build-ng is
> replacing it. In a purely Debian context at least, live-build is
> deprecated.
> live-build-ng is being developed in collaboration with debian-cd and D-I.
>
>
Just because it has been deprecated by the debian-cd team, does that imply
it is deprecated by all Debian users? Again the simple solution to select a
new namespace does not seem that complicated.



> I'm aware that I'm going to be upsetting people, but this has been a long
> time coming and I'm not going to spend time bikeshedding over naming. I
> would rather spend that time on integration of live image creation into
> official Debian infrastructure and building the best system for live image
> creation possible.
>
> Consider this thread marked as wontfix.
>
>
Hmm that saddens me.


> Thanks,
> Iain.
>
> --
>
>
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