Re: Please, unblock youtube-dl/2009.09.13-1
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 08:38:02AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote:
> Hi, Goswin and Luk.
>
> 2009/11/5 Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@web.de>:
> > Rogério Brito <rbrito@ime.usp.br> writes:
> >> In other words, we have people looking after the package.
> >
> > But will it remain functional for 1-3 years in stable/old-stable?
>
> Of course, I can't guarantee anything, since the online services have
> a quite ephemeral and volatile nature: for instance, the current
> Amarok in stable has broken access to the Wikipedia articles (and
> Wikipedia is quite open, for all that matters) and broken access to
> Amazon for fetching covers (despite the fact that they have published
> their APIs).
>
> Unfortunately, the maintainer seems to be focused on KDE in unstable
> and has declared that he isn't that much motivated to upload a fix
> release, despite some of the patches being trivial and lenny having a
> very long life still.
>
> But talking again about downloaders like youtube-dl, I think that the
> equality of judgement for packages fit for release should be
> considered with clive, cclive and many other programs that use
> unestablished interfaces.
>
> Another program in the same league is freepop, which acts as a pop
> proxy for some webmail services that don't offer ways of downloading
> the users' messages.
>
> Anyway, perhaps having youtube-dl in a stable release is not really
> the way to go. No problems. I can live with the package being in
> unstable only and pointing people to apt-pin their packages.
Why not volatile?
--
dann frazier
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