On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 14:52:44 -0500, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > On 2016-11-24 13:04:21, Julien Cristau wrote: > > On Tue, Aug 9, 2016 at 11:50:27 -0400, Antoine Beaupré wrote: > > > >> This is a tentative of opening the discussion regarding a more regular > >> update of the youtube-dl package in Debian stable. > >> > > TBH I think this should never have reached stable in the first place... > > So what should happen now? Should it be removed from stretch? > > What do we do with the version that *is* in testing? > > Isn't that what volatile (now -updates) was designed for? > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2012/msg00000.html > > It explicitly mentions: > > """ > * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g. > video downloading tools and tor). > """ > So once upon a time libquvi-scripts was supposed to help with that, by being a relatively self-contained set of per-site lua scripts that could get updated and then used by a variety of packages. Unfortunately that appears to be dead, so I'm not sure what to suggest nowadays.
Cheers, Julien
