On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 01:03:01 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilin...@queued.net>
wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:48:12 -0500 Andres Salomon
<dilin...@queued.net>
> wrote:
> > Package: ytcc
> > Version: 2.5.4-1
> > Severity: normal
> >
> > We are planning to remove the youtube-dl package in the next
Debian
> > release, as upstream development had issues and has stagnated (see
> > <https://bugs.debian.org/994151> ). The upstream package was
forked,
> and
> > active development now happens in yt-dlp (which is an almost*
drop-in
> > replacement for youtube-dl). Since your package depends on it,
please
> > test your package with yt-dlp and update the dependency to replace
> > "youtube-dl" with "yt-dlp" once you've verified that it works
> correctly
> > with your package.
>
> I just took a quick look at the ytcc code - it looks like yt-dlp
> support was added with the 2.5.4 release:
>
>
<https://github.com/woefe/ytcc/commit/14cbf5b62c3d704270b830b8b694885a52877504>
>
> I suspect you could probably get away with just replacing the
> youtube-dl depends and not having to change anything else in the
> package.
>
youtube-dl is now an empty package in sid. Please update your program
to depend upon yt-dlp instead.
Since it appears to currently work with the indirect dependency (ytcc
-> youtube-dl -> yt-dlp), I see no need to raise the severity of this
bug.
