On 2023-03-28 00:13:46, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Mon, 27 Mar 2023 00:03:20 -0400 (EDT) Unit 193 wrote:
[...]
>> And here lies the problem. Seemingly one of the big fixes in 2023.03.03
>> is a workaround for the aforementioned throttling, to revert would mean to
>> make yt-dlp unusably slow. But to leave it as is, mpv can't directly
>> utilize yt-dlp with the default quality option.
>>
>> If we weren't so close to the freeze I'd say the right option would be to
>> simply patch the yt-dlp hook in mpv and move on, but that's not precisely
>> an option anymore either.
>
> Why not?
>
> The [freeze policy] states that, even in full freeze, fixes for
> important bugs are appropriate, as long as they can be done via unstable
> (as it is currently the case for mpv).
>
> [freeze policy]: <https://release.debian.org/bookworm/freeze_policy.html>
>
> I have just filed bug [#1033595], in order to request that the patches
> you cited are applied to mpv.
>
> [#1033595]: <https://bugs.debian.org/1033595>
>
> I hope this can be the way to go.
Considering that a bug was filed against mpv, shouldn't this one be
downgraded? I don't quite see why yt-dlp should be kicked out of
bookworm because mpv didn't catchup...
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