Re: Package youtube-dl

2021-03-09 Thread Franklin Hunter
tween the >> policy and user expectations may be inevitable. >> >> Let's start out with the easy stuff. >> >> You say: >> >>     At the same time I know that youtube-dl upstream is updated >>     frequently, an

Re: Package youtube-dl

2021-03-07 Thread Zack Coffey
; >> policy and user expectations may be inevitable. > >> > >> Let's start out with the easy stuff. > >> > >> You say: > >> > >> At the same time I know that youtube-dl upstream is updated > >> frequently, and that it

Re: Package youtube-dl

2021-03-07 Thread Franklin Hunter
the same time I know that youtube-dl upstream is updated     frequently, and that it's a pain to try use anything but the latest     upstream. IMO there are reasons to question why it's present in the     Debian/Ubuntu archives at all. Now that I've read the policy, I fully agree. The packag

Re: Package youtube-dl

2021-03-06 Thread Gunnar Hjalmarsson
Hi Franklin, On 2021-03-05 07:45, Franklin Hunter wrote: The version in focal is 2020.03.24-1 . The developer is at 2021.03.03. Can it get freshened? It can't be updated easily given Ubuntu's policy for stable release updates. https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates At the same time

Package youtube-dl

2021-03-06 Thread Franklin Hunter
The version in focal is 2020.03.24-1 . The developer is at 2021.03.03. Can it get freshened? Is there an online form for this? I was reading info from "dpkg -s" and "apt-cache showpkg" , so I can't easily see if Debian has or hasn't rolled theirs. I'm thinking of something with visibility of