Bug#724801: ITP: yt -- yt is a command-line front-end to YouTube
Hi,
On 28/09/13 at 10:40pm, Dominik George wrote:
> Hi,
>
> > - I've added mplayer2|mplayer to Depends, youtube-dl is still as Recommends
> > the reason for this is that I've seen a lot of people downloading the youtube-dl
> > script directly (including me), and I don't want to force them to use the debian
> > youtube-dl package instead of his. People installing youtube-cli with the
> > --no-install-recommends option then can use his own youtube-dl version
>
> People deciding to use local copies of programs that are in Debian is
> clearly unsupported. I, and to my knowledge quite some other people,
> have Install-Recommends disabled by default, and this will break your
> package entirely. This said, youtube-cli *does* need youtube-dl. If
> someone decides to use their own copy, they can also use equivs or
> something. The Debian package system is about using Debian packages, and
> that's what we expect our users to do.
Thanks for your continue feedback, I've modified d/control to reflect the
proposal
>
> > I've decided to keep README.source, it makes no harm and I've an awful
> > memory, if I don't write this down, I'll forget it. I'm still not very
> > experimented with debian packaging.
>
> Please remember updating it to the get-orig-source method. The method
> you describe in your original README.source is *invalid* as it creates a
> wrong orig tarball (containing .git/ and everything). The only valid
> method to fetch the source for your package now is debian/rules
> get-orig-source.
I've update the README.source, it now makes reference to the get-orig-source
target. Any additional comment is welcome!
The new dsc file is at: http://mentors.debian.net/package/youtube-cli
>
> -nik
>
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