On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 04:38:41PM +0200, Joost van Baal-Ilić wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 01:33:03PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 3:40 PM, Julien Cristau <jcris...@debian.org> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 9, 2012 at 15:25:44 -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > >> Too many changes? Which ones? Compared to my last upload, there aren't > > >> really. > > > > > > Compared to the version currently in wheezy. > > > > I see. Well, those are about 7 months of development (not so active, but...) > > > > But that is, in a sense, the nature of packages/programs that deal > > with web scrapping: all of them are highly subject to drastic changes. > > (Unfortunate, I know). But that affects youtube-dl, clive, cclive, > > get-flash-videos and many, many other packages in a similar vein. > > > > I want to work with you in getting youtube-dl in wheezy and, also, not > > breaking other programs like freevo. What can we do? > > Splitting the package in a part containing only data, describing how to parse, > and one containing the actual code. The data-part will change depending on > developments in youtube webui. In Debian stable, the code-part will only > change in order to fix security or other really critical bugs. For keeping > the data-part up to date, users should use debian-volatile. That's where > the data-part shoud get uploaded to.
Volatile doesn't exist anymore; see https://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile-announce/2012/msg00000.html The list in that same mail of what qualifies for -updates includes: > * Fixes to leaf packages that were broken by external changes (e.g. > video downloading tools and tor). That clearly covers youtube-dl. As for splitting the package, that wouldn't make sense; changes to youtube typically require code changes to youtube-dl to work around, not "data" changes. Fortunately, the criteria for -updates do not require splitting the package. - Johs Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
