Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: wishlist Please remove nicovideo-dl. It is not working anymore.
1. We have better replacements. "youtube-dl" and "yt-dlp" are also able to download videos from nicovideo. Both of them have plugin designs so they can download videos from different sites and very decent.
2. Actually I am the upstream. This program is written because at very beginning nicovideo is a Flash video site. And I'm a main-only user so I don't have flash plugin installed. Thus I have to download the video instead of watching it in the browser. However, nicovideo already migrates to HTML5 for many years. I still watch nicovideos but now I watch nicovideos directly in the browser. I just cannot remember when is the last time I use this program to download videos. And when I tried it today it is not working anymore. Though fixing it is not hard but I think since we have other better tools to do the same job, so let's just RM it from Debian instead of fixing it.
Yours, Paul
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