A recap from someone who&#x27;s not a Debian user but who read through the bulk of the threads:<p>Debian Live has been around for 9+ years, and at least back in 2006 was described as &quot;an official sub-project&quot; which seems supported by the existence of live.debian.net (at least from an outside-Debian perspective).<p>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.<p>There&#x27;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.<p>While the new project was still in the experimental stage, one of the debian-cd developers decided to publish it as &quot;debian-live-ng&quot;, and when politely called on it (see thread: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.debian.org&#x2F;debian-live&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;msg00003.html" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;lists.debian.org&#x2F;debian-live&#x2F;2015&#x2F;11&#x2F;msg00003.html</a>) another of the Debian developers eventually came back and said (my translation) &quot;[you&#x27;re not an official Debian project even though you pretend to be, so we&#x27;re proceeding as already stated. Consider your concerns marked &#x27;wontfix&#x27;.]&quot;<p>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.<p>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 &quot;hey, you&#x27;ve just announced something that collides with our namespace&quot; and got what seemed like an official &quot;yes, we know. You&#x27;re not needed anymore.&quot;<p>Update: I recommend geofft&#x27;s much more informed comments in this discussion