On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:58:30 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilin...@queued.net>
wrote:
> Package: src:mkchromecast
> Version: 0.3.9~git20200902+db2964a-2
> 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.
>
> This bug is filed as normal for now, but will likely become
> release-critical once the new youtube-dl dummy package is uploaded to
> unstable.
>
The new youtube-dl dummy package has now been uploaded to unstable.
However, I'm not raising the severity on this bug because youtube-dl is
only used if mkchromecast is called with '-y <url>'. So that will now
be broken until you switch to yt-dlp, but mkchromecast appears usable
without that functionality.
It looks like it calls "youtube-dl -o - <url>", which should work with
a simple replacement to "yt-dlp -o - <url>".
