yes they changed things, it is fixed in -current (yt-11).
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 09:25:54PM -0600, Duncan Patton a Campbell wrote:
> Howdy?
>
> It would appear that this is back again, and since it has
> happened *while* running 4.5 Rel(i386), in which yt initially
> worked, I suspect YouTube has changed something.
>
> Can anyone else confirm/deny this conjecture?
>
> Thanks
>
> Dhu
>
> On Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:18:26 +0530
> Girish Venkatachalam <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:33:07PM +1100, Chris wrote:
> > > yt is giving me the following error while trying to download -
> > >
> > > $ yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw&feature=dir
> > >
> > > $ Getting http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw ...
> > > /usr/local/bin/lua: /usr/local/bin/yt:42: assertion failed!
> > > stack traceback:
> > > [C]: in function 'assert'
> > > /usr/local/bin/yt:42: in main chunk
> > > [C]: ?
> > > [2]+ Exit 1 yt http://youtube.com/watch?v=huF2mrhTtCw
> > >
> > > I have yt-6 and lua-5.1.2p0 installed on 4.2.
> > >
> > > Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks.
> > >
> >
> > Problem is fixed in -current.
> >
> > -Girish