On Tue, 8 Dec 2009 12:43:21 -0200 Rogério Brito <rbr...@ime.usp.br> wrote:
> Hi, Celejar. > > On Dec 08 2009, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 16:08:33 -0200 Rogério Brito wrote: > > > I am the maintainer of the youtube-dl package and, unfortunately, > > > due to a decision of the release team, it won't migrate to the > > > testing distribution (and, as a consequence, it will not be part of > > > a stable release). > > > > Can you explain just *why* the release team won't allow its migration? > > I took a quick look at the various dev and PTS pages associated with > > the package, and I couldn't make out the reason. > > The release team won't allow youtube-dl to be part of a stable release > for fear that the "interfaces" with youtube change during the life cycle > of the stable release. > > Of course, similar statements could be made about many packages in the > distribution that rely on services on the web that are beyond our > control, but... Yes, e.g. fetchyahoo. I've filed this against it more than six months ago: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538932 and I've gotten no response ... > Anyway, for reference, the thread here gives the justification. > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-release/2009/11/msg00033.html > > Also > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-volatile/2009/12/msg00008.html Interesting, thanks. > But, frankly, my forces for arguing are a bit drained and I don't want > anything disruptive. I'm too old for that. > > I just maintain the package and I wanted to get some wider audience, as > a lot of people may have extreme fear of the "unstable" label, > preventing them of knowing about a given package that may be nice to > have. I run Sid, so it's not an issue for me, but I see your point. > User feedback is warmly appreciated, BTW. I happily used youtube-dl for a while, but at some point I switched to cclive. I'm not sure exactly why, but I think that I ran into some trouble with youtube-dl. I noticed in the email thread you cite that you mentiod that youtube-dl has some features that the others don't. I really only use them in the simplest, default way, just copying and pasting links and running 'youtube-dl xxxx', but can you elaborate on that? > Done, no problem. Please, do keep me in the CC'ies. Thanks for your work on this package! Celejar -- foffl.sourceforge.net - Feeds OFFLine, an offline RSS/Atom aggregator mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
