Control: tags 736151 wontfix
Control: severity 736151 wishlist
Hi.
Are you aware that your message sounds unnecessarily aggressive and rude?
On Jan 20 2014, Salvo Tomaselli wrote:
> Package: youtube-dl
> Version: 2013.12.04-1
> Severity: normal
>
> Dear Maintainer,
> the package should not recommend mplayer | mplayer2.
That's an uninformed opinion. The need for mplayer is to *download* files
that are not downloadable via simple HTTP. In particular:
* rtmpdump is used to download via the RTMP protocol.
* mplayer is used to download via the MMS or RTSP protocols.
It is not a frivolous recommendation of a player for videos; instead, it is
a way to perform essential parts of actually downloading videos.
> There is a huge amount of players able to play videos, it's not reasonable
> to list them all in recommends.
>
> Moreover mplayer does not add any functionality to the package, if you
> check the debian policy about depends/recommends/suggests, that should at
> best be a suggests or disappear completely.
Read what I wrote above before claiming that "does not add any
functionality".
In general, I would trust a maintainer of a package to know what piece of
software he is maintaining. Especially when said maintainer is also involved
in upstream development.
Regards,
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