On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:27:33 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilin...@queued.net>
wrote:
> Package: lives
> Version: 3.0.2-1.2
> Severity: normal
>
> We are planning to remove the youtube-dl package in the next Debian
> release, as upstream development had issues and has stagnated (see
> <https://bugs.debian.org/994151> ). The upstream package was forked,
and
> active development now happens in yt-dlp (which is an almost* drop-in
> replacement for youtube-dl). Since your package recommends it, please
> test your package with yt-dlp and update the recommends to replace
> "youtube-dl" with "yt-dlp" once you've verified that it works
correctly
> with your package.
youtube-dl is now an empty package in sid. Please modify your package
to use yt-dlp instead. I'm not raising the severity of this bug, since
your package appears to work around a missing youtube-dl with a check
for the program and a capable->has_youtube_dl flag
.
