Control: tags -1 bookworm trixie sid On Wed, Jan 04, 2023 at 01:42:22AM -0500, Andres Salomon wrote: > 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>".
The fix will then also require backporting to bookworm, due to the youtube-dl dummy package not providing a wrapper. cu Adrian
