Package: youtube-dl Version: 2016.02.22-1 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
I installed youtube-dl on a relatively new system. The ca-certificates package was not installed, as it is not "required" by any other packages on the system, and I do not install "recommends" by default. With the (strict) dependencies satisfied, I tried to use it: # youtube-dl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwVKDXw3TB8 [youtube] qwVKDXw3TB8: Downloading webpage ERROR: Unable to download webpage: <urlopen error [SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)> (caused by URLError(SSLError(1, u'[SSL: CERTIFICATE_VERIFY_FAILED] certificate verify failed (_ssl.c:581)'),)) When I installed "ca-certificates", the problem went away. youtube-dl does not require , and does not even recommend or suggest ca-certificates. I think it should require it. I suppose it's rare to install (and use) youtube-dl before any of the various other packages that require ca-certificates. It's certainly never happened to me before on at least a half-dozen other systems I've used youtube-dl on. -- System Information: Debian Release: 7.7 Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 3.10-3-686-pae (SMP w/1 CPU core) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on: ii python-pkg-resources 18.8-1 pn python:any <none> Versions of packages youtube-dl recommends: ii curl 7.38.0-4+deb8u3 pn ffmpeg | libav-tools <none> pn mpv | mplayer | mplayer2 <none> pn rtmpdump <none> ii wget 1.13.4-3+deb7u1 youtube-dl suggests no packages. -- no debconf information -- Brian Sammon <debian-b...@brisammon.fastmail.fm>
