As other sources have claimed, &quot;Debian Live&quot; has for some time not been a Debian project at all. It was fairly strongly bypassing the bureaucracy, and most of the outspoken users seem to be people using it for downstream distributions.<p>The existence of live-wrapper (formerly &quot;live-build-ng&quot;) can be seen as a way of regularizing this situation, by writing software that the Debian CD and boot teams can rely upon and is strictly better than Debian Live for official Debian purposes. &quot;Debian Live&quot; was not providing needed features.