On Mon, 2022-07-25 at 08:06 +0200, michel wrote: > Several applications expect to find youtube-dl, not yt-dlp. Yet, the > two are almost the same. > It would be nice to have a new package, that wraps around yt-dlp and > make it look like youtube-dl.
I think the way to handle this might be for the yt-dlp source package to also generate a virtual package with a Provides stanza for youtube- dl, like so: https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-relationships.html#virtual-packages-provides Of course this assumes that the two interfaces are the same. Right now for 99 % of users in the simple ways that they use the two, I think they probably are. Over time though they will inevitably diverge in the same way mplayer's descendants did, or ffmpeg and libav's CLI tools. -- Kip Warner OpenPGP signed/encrypted mail preferred https://www.thevertigo.com
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