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Bug#994151: youtube-dl seems to be alive again

From	Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.bugs.dist
Subject	Bug#994151: youtube-dl seems to be alive again
Date	2022-07-27 04:00 +0200
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On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 00:29 -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> Yeah, I was just noticing that. I'll wait a few more months to see if
> youtube-dl does an actual release, but long-term it might make sense
> to 
> turn youtube-dl into an empty package that depends on yt-dlp.

This could make sense even if the former would make a new release.

I mean in Debian we have current Python versions, and as long as yt-dlp
is feature-wise far more active than youtube-dl, that should be enough
for Debian users.

> Since they have different command-line arguments and people might be 
> using youtube-dl in scripts, I do wonder if youtube-dl should remain
> in 
> bookworm with a NEWS.Debian warning users to switch to yt-dlp, and
> have 
> it become a dummy package in bookworm+1?

Or just add a release notes entry that youtube-dl has been replaced by
the other, with noting the similar CLI and refering to the yt-dlp
manpage for the exact differences.

On Tue, 2022-07-26 at 07:08 +0200, Andreas Tille wrote:
> I would be really happyif you would consider team
> maintaining youtube-dl and yt-dl since I'm really not the best person
> to
> maintain this package.  I'm fine with sponsoring any of your work if
> you do
> not have upload permissions.

At least for yt-dlp, Unit 193 already does quite some awesome job of
Debian maintenance... so I guess there's not much needed for that right
now?

Thanks,
Chris.

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Bug#994151: youtube-dl seems to be alive again Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> - 2022-07-26 06:40 +0200
  Bug#994151: youtube-dl seems to be alive again Andreas Tille <andreas@an3as.eu> - 2022-07-26 07:20 +0200
  Bug#994151: youtube-dl seems to be alive again Christoph Anton Mitterer <calestyo@scientia.org> - 2022-07-27 04:00 +0200

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