Control: severity -1 important On Sun, Sep 12, 2021 at 10:37:29PM +0200, michel wrote: > Package: youtube-dl > Severity: grave > > the youtube-dl project seams to have died. > There was no new release since 6/6/2021 > The last commit was on 1 of Jully. > This delay is very long for this project. > A partial solution for downloading age restricted videos > from youtube was found, but it still isn't implemented.
I do not think that severity grave is rectified if the current youtube-dl is just unable to download a certain set of videos. > It doesn't seam to be a legal threat. > The devs haven't given any statement. > > It seams unlikely that it will come back to life. Can you provide any evidence for this statement? > People seam to be moving to the yt-dlp fork. > https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp > > The proposed solution: is to package and backport yt-dlp > and wait a little longer before completly replacing > youtube-dl with yt-dlp This "wait a little longer" is my motivation to decrease the severity of this bug to important to keep it in testing for the moment. I hope you agree about this. Kind regards Andreas. -- http://fam-tille.de
