Hi Jonathan, [Sorry, dropping most addressees]. On 23-06-2019 20:23, Jonathan Wiltshire wrote: > I am concerned about releasing buster with youtube-dl as an included > package. Me too. > The RC bug currently affecting buster (#930462) makes youtube-dl unable to > download videos from YouTube. I realise it can download other sites as > well, but as the package name specifically highlights YouTube I see this as > a significant issue. There seems to have been a fix in sid but no unblock > request as yet. > > That fix is also unsuitable for unblocking as it currently stands; if we do > not fix it now, it would have to be done in stable anyway and it's not > really suitable there either. My idea was to remove it once the time-slot to reach our dead-line has passed for every urgency, i.e. tomorrow. > I am therefore not confident at all that youtube-dl is suitable for stable > and I am inclined to think we should remove it from buster. I am open to > being persuaded about that.> > Do others have thoughts about this? There has been enough time to get a fix in buster. It hasn't happened. Paul
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