Package: release.debian.org Severity: normal Tags: jessie User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org Usertags: pu
This is a tentative of opening the discussion regarding a more regular update of the youtube-dl package in Debian stable. Currently, Youtube-dl does not work in stable: it fails to download videos from youtube completely. While other sites may work, its primary purpose simply fails and tells users to ugrade their package to the latest version using their package manager, which fails because it *is* the latest version. An example of this scenario is Bug#781180, which clearly shows the software doesn't work at all. Unfortunately, this is a scenario in which providing a small patch to fix the problem is probably impossible. What I would suggest here is to simply ship the version from testing as a proposed update for the next stable release. Note that upstream does not have a stable release branch, and they make frequent (ie. about monthly) releases which may be difficult to keep up with. However, I believe the release schedule of stable may be sufficient to keep up with the largest changes on the bigger websites. If youtube-dl cannot be updated in this fashion, then it is my opinion that it should be completely removed from stable and blocked from entering testing in the future so that we don't have the same problem in future releases. It would mean denying users access to an excellent piece of softwae, however, which would be a shame. Thanks for considering this request! -- System Information: Debian Release: 8.5 APT prefers stable-updates APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)