This explains why i know more about this then the debian maintainer.
Normally, it would have been pretty painless to maintain this. It's just bad luck that this happens now. Ask for some one else to take it over: *Maybe the mpv maintainer will be interested. (mpv uses youtube-dl to play videos from urls directly. With youtube-dl installed, this works "mpv https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Gj47G2e1Jc";) *There's also the maintainer of youtubedl-gui
