[Pkg-freevo-maint] Bug#688997: youtube-dl: Needs update to newer version to fix youtube downloading

[intrigeri]

Hi,

Rogério Brito wrote (09 Oct 2012 18:25:44 GMT) :
> In summary: I want to keep youtube-dl up-to-date for stable
> releases also.

Thanks!

FWIW, Ansgar has been doing this for clive during the Squeeze life
cycle, and intends to do so for libquvi (the backend shared behind
recent enough versions of clive, cclive and quvi) and friends during
the Wheezy life cycle.

Rogério Brito wrote (10 Oct 2012 16:33:03 GMT) :
> But that is, in a sense, the nature of packages/programs that deal
> with web scrapping: all of them are highly subject to drastic changes.
> (Unfortunate, I know). But that affects youtube-dl, clive, cclive,
> get-flash-videos and many, many other packages in a similar vein.

I believe that's why a few of these other ones now share a common
backend. From my remote point-of-view, it looks like the clever move.
I'm not sure how many alternative implementations of such scrapping
code we want to support in a Debian stable release.

So, if *I* wanted to explain the release team why youtube-dl should be
part of Wheezy, granted freeze exceptions, and maintained
through -updates, I think my next action would be to explain what
youtube-dl does, that libquvi -backed software don't.

Cheers,
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