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Bug#833865: marked as done (RM: youtube-dl -- RoQA; too difficult to keep current)

Your message dated Sat, 23 Jun 2018 09:04:25 +0000
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and subject line Bug#833865: Removed package(s) from oldstable
has caused the Debian Bug report #833865,
regarding RM: youtube-dl -- RoQA; too difficult to keep current
to be marked as done.

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Package: release.debian.org
Severity: normal
Tags: jessie
User: release.debian.org@packages.debian.org
Usertags: pu

This is a tentative of opening the discussion regarding a more regular
update of the youtube-dl package in Debian stable.

Currently, Youtube-dl does not work in stable: it fails to download
videos from youtube completely. While other sites may work, its
primary purpose simply fails and tells users to ugrade their package
to the latest version using their package manager, which fails because
it *is* the latest version.

An example of this scenario is Bug#781180, which clearly shows the
software doesn't work at all.

Unfortunately, this is a scenario in which providing a small patch to
fix the problem is probably impossible. What I would suggest here is
to simply ship the version from testing as a proposed update for the
next stable release. Note that upstream does not have a stable release
branch, and they make frequent (ie. about monthly) releases which may
be difficult to keep up with. However, I believe the release schedule
of stable may be sufficient to keep up with the largest changes on the
bigger websites.

If youtube-dl cannot be updated in this fashion, then it is my opinion
that it should be completely removed from stable and blocked from
entering testing in the future so that we don't have the same problem
in future releases. It would mean denying users access to an excellent
piece of softwae, however, which would be a shame.

Thanks for considering this request!

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.5
  APT prefers stable-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'proposed-updates'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=fr_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=fr_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

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We believe that the bug you reported is now fixed; the following
package(s) have been removed from oldstable:

youtube-dl | 2014.08.05-1+deb8u1 | source, all

------------------- Reason -------------------
RoQA; too difficult to keep current
----------------------------------------------

Note that the package(s) have simply been removed from the tag
database and may (or may not) still be in the pool; this is not a bug.
The package(s) will be physically removed automatically when no suite
references them (and in the case of source, when no binary references
it).  Please also remember that the changes have been done on the
master archive and will not propagate to any mirrors until the next
dinstall run at the earliest.

Packages are usually not removed from testing by hand. Testing tracks
unstable and will automatically remove packages which were removed
from unstable when removing them from testing causes no dependency
problems. The release team can force a removal from testing if it is
really needed, please contact them if this should be the case.

Bugs which have been reported against this package are not automatically
removed from the Bug Tracking System.  Please check all open bugs and
close them or re-assign them to another package if the removed package
was superseded by another one.

The version of this package that was in Debian prior to this removal
can still be found using http://snapshot.debian.org/.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 833865@bugs.debian.org.

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