commit: e8aab7eab6e5f2d809d14cb028d962c528b9de62 Author: Ionen Wolkens <ionen <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> AuthorDate: Tue Jan 24 13:19:07 2023 +0000 Commit: Ionen Wolkens <ionen <AT> gentoo <DOT> org> CommitDate: Tue Jan 24 13:31:17 2023 +0000 URL: https://gitweb.gentoo.org/repo/gentoo.git/commit/?id=e8aab7ea
profiles: last rite net-misc/youtube-dl Bug: https://bugs.gentoo.org/891917 Signed-off-by: Ionen Wolkens <ionen <AT> gentoo.org> profiles/package.mask | 16 ++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 16 insertions(+) diff --git a/profiles/package.mask b/profiles/package.mask index 408fd1a84256..e58fb81b96b1 100644 --- a/profiles/package.mask +++ b/profiles/package.mask @@ -33,6 +33,22 @@ #--- END OF EXAMPLES --- +# Ionen Wolkens <[email protected]> (2023-01-24) +# Mostly obsoleted by the better maintained net-misc/yt-dlp, please +# migrate. If had USE=yt-dlp enabled (default) then was likely already +# using through its youtube-dl compatibility wrapper and this will +# change nothing beside needing to ensure that it is not depcleaned. +# +# Upstream is mostly focusing on compatibility and old python support, +# still uses deprecated Nose for tests, and has not seen a new release +# to deploy fixes in a long time despite major issues (e.g. throttling). +# +# Been kept due to some packages lacking compatibility with yt-dlp's +# python modules, but none are left in tree. Those that call the command +# rather than modules will often work as-is with yt-dlp's wrapper. +# Removal: 2023-02-23. Bug #891917 +net-misc/youtube-dl + # Michał Górny <[email protected]> (2023-01-24) # mps-youtube does not seem to work "out of the box". It has had its # last release in 2018, and no commits since 2020. It is the only
