Sorry all for the silence on this front.
I haven't uploaded yet because I went back and forth a bunch on what to
do. Then I looked at some of the packages that depend upon youtube-dl
and realized that a bunch of them have code that already is checking
for both yt-dlp and youtube-dl (including both the scripts and the
python modules), and doing different things based on what is installed.
In addition, when I tried to have a frontend (youtubedl-gui) use yt-dlp
--compat-options, it didn't work. My tests showed youtube-dl
downloading videos significantly slower than yt-dlp. Given all of that,
I came to the conclusion that having yt-dlp pretend to be youtube-dl
was a bad idea, and we should instead have a users and packages
manually switch.
So I'm going ahead with the transition plan. I filed a bunch of bugs to
get packages to change their depends/rec/suggests to yt-dlp, submitted
some merge requests to help maintainers switch, and basically have just
started getting ready. What I have not done yet is a) update the
youtube-dl git repo, and b) filed a bug requesting a transition slot
with the release team. But I'm planning to do both of those things this
week.
The bugs I filed:
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024212>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024214> (done)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024216>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024217> (done)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024222>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024226> (done)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024227> (done)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024228> (fixed in the git repo but not
uploaded yet)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024229>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024230> (done)
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024231>
<https://bugs.debian.org/1024232>
BTW, I'm not familiar with yt-dl - was that just a typo?
