On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 12:43:21PM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Celejar. > > On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote: > > > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, > > > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the > > > testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of > > > a stable release). > > > > Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration? > > I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with > > the package, and I couldn't make out the reason. > > The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release > for fear that the "interfaces" with youtube change during the life cycle > of the stable release. > > Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the > distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our > control, but... > Would that make it qualify for the "volatile" archive?
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