On Thu, 18 May 2023 12:56:22 +0200 Bastian Blank <wa...@debian.org>
wrote:
> Source: youtube-dl
> Version: 2021.12.17-2
> Severity: serious
>
> We have a maintained and uptodate fork of this package in the archive
> and the release: yt-dlp. Do we really need to release this package
in a
> not so usable state?
There are still packages in the archive that depend upon youtube-dl. I
have ensured that they don't break with the transitional package (most
upstream packages either check for yt-dlp and youtube-dl, or just fall
back to doing something reasonable if youtube-dl doesn't exist), but it
seems pretty late in the release process to go changing stuff like that.
Once bookworm is released, youtube-dl can be dropped and packages that
depend upon it can have RC bugs filed to change their dependencies.
>
> Hint: transitional packages are supposed to be at the target of a
> transiton and more empty.
I'm not understanding what you mean here. The youtube-dl package *is*
empty other than the NEWS entry:
https://packages.debian.org/sid/all/youtube-dl/filelist
Or did you mean the source package?
