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and subject line Bug#1052158: Removed package(s) from unstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #909314,
regarding youtube-dl: Very verbose apt description for youtube-dl
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Package: youtube-dl
Version: 2018.06.18-1.1
Severity: wishlist
Dear Maintainer,
While it's easy to get around reading the long apt description for
youtube-dl with something like 'apt show package | less' or 'apt show
package | head xx' it might not be that intuitive for a novice.
There are simpler tools like aptitude and synaptic, but for whatever
reason they might actually want to use apt instead. Possibly to learn
how to use the command-line. In which case they might just see 50 lines
or so of the ~1000 that's displayed using 'apt show youtube-dl'.
Debian policy 3.4 says: "The description should describe the package
(the program) to a user (system administrator) who has never met it
before so that they have enough information to decide whether they want
to install it."
A solution/outcome could be to limit the list of the supported platform
for youtube-dl to some that can be assumed to be the most relevant.
Possibly pointing to the full list on 'packages.debian.org' or to the
developers site/git repository. That would enable a user to decide if
they want to install the package or not more easily.
Again with a novice in mind: youtube is a "thing", a novice would
probably choose to install something like youtube-dl instead of some
library. If they can manage to install and use a package on Debian
that'd probably encourage them to keep using the OS.
Best regards, Johan.
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (1001, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.14.0-3-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on:
ii python3 3.5.3-1
ii python3-pkg-resources 33.1.1-1
Versions of packages youtube-dl recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20161130+nmu1+deb9u1
ii curl 7.52.1-5+deb9u7
ii ffmpeg 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1
pn mpv | mplayer <none>
pn phantomjs <none>
pn python3-pyxattr <none>
pn rtmpdump <none>
ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2
youtube-dl suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
Version: 2021.12.17-2+rm
Dear submitter,
as the package youtube-dl has just been removed from the Debian archive
unstable we hereby close the associated bug reports. We are sorry
that we couldn't deal with your issue properly.
For details on the removal, please see https://bugs.debian.org/1052158
The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using https://snapshot.debian.org/.
Please note that the changes have been done on the master archive and
will not propagate to any mirrors until the next dinstall run at the
earliest.
This message was generated automatically; if you believe that there is
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Scott Kitterman (the ftpmaster behind the curtain)
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