Package: release.debian.org
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User: release.debian....@packages.debian.org
Usertags: transition
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Hi,
Youtube-dl has mostly stopped development other than basic maintenance, and
development has resumed with the yt-dlp project (which is already in debian)
as documented in <https://bugs.debian.org/994151>.
For the bookworm release, we intend to drop the youtube-dl upstream code
from
the archive, with an empty transition package that will simply depend on
yt-dlp
and a NEWS entry informing users of the change. We considered attempting a
seamless transition that provided a wrapper python module for the youtube_dl
library and the /usr/bin/youtube-dl executable, but there are complications
(such slightly different behavior between the two programs even when using
yt-dlp's provided '--compat-options youtube-dl' argument, and programs
that are
aware of both yt-dlp and youtube-dl that will get confused if we pretend
that
youtube-dl is yt-dlp). Rather than risk the potential to introduce
silent bugs
into user setups, we prefer to simply inform users of the change and require
them to manually verify their setups with yt-dlp.
I filed 13 bugs with packages that have reverse dependencies on youtube-dl
(ignoring those packages that depend on yt-dlp|youtube-dl); half have
already
been fixed. I plan to bump the severity on remaining bugs once the
youtube-dl
transition package is uploaded to sid (for those packages that actually
break
without a youtube-dl script/library).
Depends on youtube-dl:
ytcc: #1024212
youtubedl-gui: #1024214 (done)
mkchromecast: #1024216
Recommends youtube-dl:
lollypop: #1024217 (done)
celluloid: #1024222
lives: #1024229
libmpv1: #1026866
Suggests youtube-dl:
git-annex: #1024226 (done)
gpodder: #1024227 (done)
liquidsoap: #1024228 (done)
ytfzf: #1024230 (done)
acetoneiso: #1024231
python3-moviepy: #1024232
There are no library or ABI concerns with this transition, this is mostly
to get a transition slot and to track the transition.
Ben file:
title = "youtube-dl";
is_affected = .build-depends ~ /youtube-dl/ | .depends ~ /youtube-dl/;
is_good = .build-depends ~ /yt-dlp/ | .depends ~ /yt-dlp/;
is_bad = .build-depends ~ /youtube-dl/ | .depends ~ /youtube-dl/;
I can NMU where necessary for the remaining bugs, once the transition is
underway.
Thanks,
Andres
