Dear Johan,
I have the opposing view.
What you shared would have made sense if it was a GUI program but it's
a CLI program.
Also the idea of upstream while at one point might have been to only
have access to youtube-dl today's that not true.
In fact, I'm probably one of many users who constantly file bugs on
the upstream BTS asking support for more and more sites and learning
and sharing whatever little knowledge we get.
There are other use-cases which you haven't thought about. What if the
user is looking for a video downloader from one of the youtube-dl
supported sites. While the info. is available under
/usr/share/doc/youtube-dl/changelog.gz I doubt a novice user would be
able to trawl/find it and make use of it.
Having the description in apt, aptitude etc. makes it easier and not
harder to find resources.
For instance let's say if I wanted to find out if there is a document
downloader of Wall Street Jorunals/Articles if I do simply like -
$ apt-cache search WSJArticle
youtube-dl - downloader of videos from YouTube and other sites
So a user who wants to search an article downloader can use youtube-dl
for his.her site.
Although people who want info. have more detailed might look at -
/usr/share/doc/youtube-dl$ ls
changelog.Debian.gz changelog.gz
Look forward for this bug be ended.
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