Bug#833865: jessie-pu: package youtube-dl/2014.08.05-1+deb8u1
On 2016-12-17 05:34:35, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 14:52:44 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>
>> On 2016-11-24 13:04:21, Julien Cristau wrote:
>> > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:50:27 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote:
>> >
>> >> This is a tentative of opening the discussion regarding a more regular
>> >> update of the youtube-dl package in Debian stable.
>> >>
>> > TBH I think this should never have reached stable in the first place...
>>
>> So what should happen now? Should it be removed from stretch?
>>
>> What do we do with the version that *is* in testing?
>>
>> Isn't that what volatile (now -updates) was designed for?
>>
>> https://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2012/msg00000.html
>>
>> It explicitly mentions:
>>
>> """
>> * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g.
>> video downloading tools and tor).
>> """
>
> So once upon a time libquvi-scripts was supposed to help with that, by
> being a relatively self-contained set of per-site lua scripts that could
> get updated and then used by a variety of packages. Unfortunately that
> appears to be dead, so I'm not sure what to suggest nowadays.
Yeah, I was a user of libquvi-scripts. I even prodded joeyh so that he
implements support for it in git-annex so that we could have URL-backed
youtube videos in there... Only to discover it would rot like that...
It's too bad, really: quvi was the right approach - but youtube-dl seems
to have won the race. It supports more platforms and keeps up with the
changes.
Really, it's an algorithmic problem: you can't just push that stuff in
metadata and treat it as simple databases that need to be independently
of the main program logic...
A.
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