I think the proper Debian way to handle such tools, is to install them from backports. youtube-dl from buster-backports is currently up-to-date with upstream https://packages.debian.org/buster-backports/youtube-dl.
Maybe debian-installer does not make it clear enough that enabling backports is strongly recommended for desktop machines? For smtube you would need to find a maintainer for a backported package. Le mer. 15 juil. 2020 à 08:29, er...@tuzcular.com <er...@tuzcular.com> a écrit : > > As far as I know, youtube-dl can be installed and updated through pip. > I think updating packages if we can is a better idea than removing > them. It might be useful to put a warning saying that "Youtube is a > propriatery script and makes breaking changes very fast. If this > software doesn't work you can try getting a newer version from the > python package index at your own risk. " > > On Tue, 2020-07-07 at 00:51 +0200, Ervin Dine wrote: > > YouTube changes it's code fast. > > This renders programs that are free and open source working with > > YouTube obsolete very fast unless they update too. > > Such is the case with smtube, youtube-dl in the official Debian 10 > > stable repositories. They are completely useless for youtube. > > Should Debian update broken packages or remove packages that rely on > > proprietary services? > > >
