Bug#833865: jessie-pu: package youtube-dl/2014.08.05-1+deb8u1
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
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