Package: youtube-dl
Version: 2017.05.18.1-1
Followup-For: Bug #904619
Dear Maintainer,
This particular package becomes obsolete very quickly and the version
in Stretch hasn't been updated in over a year. Is there some way to
alert users to not bother with it on a stable system and what they can
do instead? For example, maybe the stable package description could say,
"The stable version of youtube-dl no longer works for YouTube.
If you are willing to accept the security risks, a more
recent version may be available by adding the Debian testing
repository to /etc/apt/sources.list. You can check the
version available here: packages.debian.org/testing/youtube-dl"
Ben
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 9.5
APT prefers stable-updates
APT policy: (500, 'stable-updates'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386
Kernel: Linux 4.9.0-8-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8),
LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
Versions of packages youtube-dl depends on:
ii dpkg 1.18.25
ii python3 3.5.3-1
ii python3-pkg-resources 33.1.1-1
Versions of packages youtube-dl recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20161130+nmu1+deb9u1
ii curl 7.52.1-5+deb9u7
ii ffmpeg 7:3.2.12-1~deb9u1
ii mpv 0.23.0-2+deb9u2
ii rtmpdump 2.4+20151223.gitfa8646d.1-1+b1
ii wget 1.18-5+deb9u2
youtube-dl suggests no packages.
-- no debconf information
