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Bug#994151: youtube-dl: the youtube-dl project seams to have died

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Hi,

On Thu, Sep 16, 2021 at 03:47:11PM +0000, okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com wrote:
> 
> I'm not very familiar with Debian's packaging rules

I injected yt-dlp into Salsa:

    https://salsa.debian.org/debian/yt-dlp

you can try to build it and test it locally.

> Do what you think is best.

It is definitely not best if I maintain another package
alone.
 
> youtube-dl is not just for youtube,
> other sites get constantly fixed or added   
> And now there's no activity since the 1 of July.
> Waiting for youtube to brake is a bit too conservative.
> You can also see a declining activity over time.
> The forks got created because of this declining activity.

I repeat:  Why do people forking instead of joining.  Did anybody of the
people who started the fork considered to contribute to the original
first?  What about merging the changes of the fork into original
youtube-dl?

> That they made no statement whatsoever is more concerning
> then reassuring.
> 
> Given their hum... toxic attitude, it's unlikely they'll
> do any statement. It's practically certain, they will never
> clearly say that the project is dead.
 
Who has a toxic attitude and where is the proof for this
statement?

Kind regards

      Andreas.
 

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Bug#994151: youtube-dl: the youtube-dl project seams to have died michel <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-12 22:40 +0200
  Bug#994151: youtube-dl: the youtube-dl project seams to have died "okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com" <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-16 18:00 +0200
    Bug#994151: youtube-dl: the youtube-dl project seams to have died Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2021-09-22 07:10 +0200
  Bug#994151: reply from maintainer "okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com" <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-21 16:40 +0200
    Bug#994151: reply from maintainer Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2021-09-21 16:50 +0200
  Bug#994151: red flags "okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com" <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-22 02:00 +0200
  Bug#994151: fixes/state of youtube-dl/transition? "okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com" <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-23 17:20 +0200
    Bug#994151: fixes/state of youtube-dl/transition? Andreas Tille <andreas@fam-tille.de> - 2021-09-23 22:00 +0200
  Bug#994151: new maintainer "okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com" <okgomdjgbmoij@gmail.com> - 2021-09-24 23:00 +0200

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