Hi. On Jul 14 2017, aaronfranke wrote: > Also see: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/13649
I will take a look at that later. > As listed on the main page for this package > https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl the version distributed > with each Ubuntu release is approximately the version available when the > distro was released. > > This is a grave mistake. YouTube constantly updates their website and > youtube-dl must be updated to account for this. As it stands right now, > you are distributing non-functional packages to the users of non-the- > very-most-recent Ubuntu releases, such as the latest LTS, 16.04. > Meaning, 3/4 of the time out of all times the package is outdated. I am the maintainer of youtube-dl on the Debian side and my work is mirrored on Ubuntu, but I would love if my uploads of highly volatile packages were also reflected on Ubuntu. Especially a package like youtube-dl. Regards, -- Rogério Brito : rbrito@{ime.usp.br,gmail.com} : GPG key 4096R/BCFCAAAA http://cynic.cc/blog/ : github.com/rbrito : profiles.google.com/rbrito DebianQA: http://qa.debian.org/developer.php?login=rbrito%40ime.usp.br -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1704368 Title: The youtube-dl packages are outdated for most Ubuntu versions To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1704368/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs
