Would be possible to release a 64 bit version of elive tagged as "early Alfa" which ships an updated 64 bit Debian version but packaged with just basic features of elive? Like just elive's wonderful gui (with ecomorph) and zsh?
It'd be far away from elive 3.0, and it'd probably miss features like persistence (maybe even the live session) and all the personalized packages, but at least it'd be an alternative for these who need an updated Debian without moving from elive (even if it's not the real features-full one)! Or isnt it that easy?
For example i hope I won't need to update Debian for my next University class, but if it were the case I'm going to switch back to q4os on my laptop (Debian stretch/buster 64 bit based) 