Is it a given?  Why/why not?  What will become of live-build and its existing applications/users?  Is there a migration path?

What are the alternatives?  (Linux Live, Remastersys, ...)

Please discuss.  Rationally, if you can, please, ladies and gentlemen.  If this has been covered elsewhere (I did look) a pointer will suffice.

Suggested topics:

Pros and cons: stability, maintenance/maintainability, features/extensibility, ease of use/documentation/support, resources, licensing, user base, ...

Ah, my mistake. I took your "live-build" to mean "live-sdk".

Sure, as per my post that's more or less what I'm doing with live-sdk.

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In your reply to pcalvert you wrote

That makes me nervous that I might have missed something.  Do you mind posting a complete Devuan apt config?

yeah, I did all that.  It offers to boot on the stick and then doesn't.

Don't worry, I'll work something out thanks.

Hello again,

modifying the debootstrap command only affected the package sources for stage 1, so in the end I modified the value of 'mirror' in lib/libdevuansdk/config (which means that source.list gets the same value so I'll need to fix that up near the end of the build).  I've burned a CD and it boots and lets me log in OK, so more or less everything seems to be working.  Now I need to think a bit more about the packages I need to install.

The image doesn't seem to be bootable directly from a USB stick, just wondering if there's an easy way to achieve that?

Very many thanks for this excellent article.

Note on prerequisites:
In addition to those mentioned in the article I *think* I found that I had to install the 'isolinux' package to get the build to complete without complaining that isohdpfx.bin was missing from /usr/lib/ISOLINUX/ - although in fact it appeared to be there...

Would it be safe to use our on-site caching proxy server for the archive repository?  It would make building from scratch a great deal quicker and I seem to be doing that quite a lot at the moment.