Bug#608658: RM: clive/0.4.18-1 (stable)

[Ansgar Burchardt <ansgar@43-1.org>]

Mehdi Dogguy <mehdi@dogguy.org> writes:
>> Please consider removing clive/0.4.18-1 from Lenny.  It does no
>> longer work due to changes to the web sites it extracts the video
>> URLs from.
>
> Do you think that you'll need to file a similar RoM bug in two years to
> remove clive from Squeeze?

Hopefully not. I am quite sure clive will need several updates over
Squeeze's lifetime, but there are two problems with Lenny's version:

It's written in Python. clive is now maintained by the Perl Group and I
know only very little Python (it was maintained by the Python Apps Team
in the past).

Further most necessary changes to keep clive working are quite small,
but I don't want to figure out all changes over the past two years
required to make Lenny's version work again.

Regards,
Ansgar