Control: severity -1 important On 2023-03-29 22:13:54 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2023-03-28 00:13:46, Francesco Poli wrote: > > On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Unit 193 wrote: > [...] > >> And here lies the problem. Seemingly one of the big fixes in 2023.03.03 > >> is a workaround for the aforementioned throttling, to revert would mean to > >> make yt-dlp unusably slow. But to leave it as is, mpv can't directly > >> utilize yt-dlp with the default quality option. > >> > >> If we weren't so close to the freeze I'd say the right option would be to > >> simply patch the yt-dlp hook in mpv and move on, but that's not precisely > >> an option anymore either. > > > > Why not? > > > > The [freeze policy] states that, even in full freeze, fixes for > > important bugs are appropriate, as long as they can be done via unstable > > (as it is currently the case for mpv). > > > > [freeze policy]: <https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html> > > > > I have just filed bug [#1033595], in order to request that the patches > > you cited are applied to mpv. > > > > [#1033595]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1033595> > > > > I hope this can be the way to go. > > Considering that a bug was filed against mpv, shouldn't this one be > downgraded? I don't quite see why yt-dlp should be kicked out of > bookworm because mpv didn't catchup...
grave seems to be an exaggeration for this issue. Both packages still work. Cheers -- Sebastian Ramacher
