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and subject line Re: youtubedl-gui: fails to start download to path with quote
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regarding youtubedl-gui: fails to start download to path with quote
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Package: youtubedl-gui
Version: 3.0-2+b1
Severity: normal
Hi,
The Dutch variant of GNOME comes with a directory called "Video's". Note
the quote. If that directory is used as download directory in
youtubedl-qui, nothing (seems to) happens when the Download button is
pressed, not even an error message. When I start youtubedl-gui from the
command line, I see it passes a command to yt-dlp and there the quote is
not escaped. I assume that's the underlying problem.
Paul
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.12.10-amd64 (SMP w/12 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Kernel taint flags: TAINT_WARN
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages youtubedl-gui depends on:
ii libc6 2.40-6
ii libgcc-s1 14.2.0-12
ii libqt5core5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2
ii libqt5gui5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2
ii libqt5widgets5t64 5.15.15+dfsg-2
ii libstdc++6 14.2.0-12
ii yt-dlp 2025.01.26-1
youtubedl-gui recommends no packages.
youtubedl-gui suggests no packages.
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--- Begin Message ---
notfixed 1094935 4.5.2
thanks
Version: 4.5.3-1
This was fixed upstream in 4.5.2 by commit a411407 ("Escape ' character
in folder path (fix #15)") together with its follow-up 0fabc14 ("Fix
regression introduced in previous commit"), which escape every
single quote in the download directory before passing it to yt-dlp.
Upstream 4.5.2 was never uploaded to Debian; the first Debian upload
containing the fix is 4.5.3-1, so I'm closing the bug against that
version (and dropping the "fixed 4.5.2" marker, which doesn't
correspond to a Debian source version).
Thanks to Paul for the report and to Antoine for the fix.
--Barak.
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