On Wed, Apr 24, 2024 at 10:31:44PM +0800, Bret Busby wrote: > The latest version of youtube-dl , makes it too old to try to use now; if > you can get it working with youtube, good luck to you. > > An unmaintained package, that is three years since last updated, for > accessing web sites on the World Wide Web? > > Hmmmm.....
The youtube-dl package in Debian 12 is a transitional package which brings in yt-dlp (version 2023.03.04-1 currently). Whether that's too old to be usable is a good question, but it's definitely not "three years since last updated".