On 2016-12-17 05:34:35, Julien Cristau wrote: > 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.
Yeah, I was a user of libquvi-scripts. I even prodded joeyh so that he implements support for it in git-annex so that we could have URL-backed youtube videos in there... Only to discover it would rot like that... It's too bad, really: quvi was the right approach - but youtube-dl seems to have won the race. It supports more platforms and keeps up with the changes. Really, it's an algorithmic problem: you can't just push that stuff in metadata and treat it as simple databases that need to be independently of the main program logic... A. -- In god we trust, others pay cash. - Richard Desjardins, Miami