Hello people, especially Jaromil Nextime and CenturionDan,

I'm currently working on an experiment to re-connect our version of
live-build to a new "upstream".

The original author, Daniel Baumann, had finished version 4.0.3
(published for Debian Jessie) years ago, and worked on a branch 5.0

Then I took 4.0.3 and made it work for Devuan Jessie
(http://packages.devuan.org/devuan/pool/main/l/live-build/live-build_4.0.3-1%2Bdevuan2.debian.tar.xz
)

Now mr. Baumann is working for Open Infrastructure.net

and they have done a lot of work on live-build (now called system-build)

https://open-infrastructure.net/software/system-build/


So.. now I took my 11 Devuan patches, and smoothly (well.. "kicking and
screaming") adapted them for open-infrastructure-system-build
5.0.20160701

I haven't tested anything yet, because that also takes hours of work
with this particular program.


But the purpose of this exercise is, to keep my version of
4.0.3-1+devuan2 as the (discontinued) live-build program for Devuan
Jessie, but instead to
use the "real" upstream open-infrastructure-system-build 5.0 as our
upstream for Devuan Ascii and beyond.

Do you approve of this idea? I haven't contacted Baumann yet (well, just
a short e-mail to say hello), but if you agree that we should use
open-infrastructure-system-build from Ascii on,
then I'll e-mail him to tell him that.

Live-build is not a critical program for normal users of Devuan, however
it is an important tool for people who want to make a distro based on
Devuan, and it took some work to disentangle systemd out of it.
And despite the fact that live-build is difficult to learn to use, it
does its work extremely well.

Greetings,
Frits Daalmans