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 depends on it, please
test your package with yt-dlp and update the dependency to replace
"youtube-dl" with "yt-dlp" once you've verified that it works correctly
with your package.

This bug is filed as normal for now, but will likely become
release-critical once the new youtube-dl dummy package is uploaded to
unstable.

Thanks,
Andres

 * When yt-dlp is supplied the "--compat-options" option, it will
revert to youtube-dl compatibility for command-line arguments. See the
yt-dlp man page for more details.

On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:58:30 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>  wrote:
 > Package: src:mkchromecast
 > Version: 0.3.9~git20200902+db2964a-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 depends on it, please
 > test your package with yt-dlp and update the dependency to replace
 > "youtube-dl" with "yt-dlp" once you've verified that it works
correctly
 > with your package.
 >
 > This bug is filed as normal for now, but will likely become
 > release-critical once the new youtube-dl dummy package is uploaded to
 > unstable.
 >

The new youtube-dl dummy package has now been uploaded to unstable.
However, I'm not raising the severity on this bug because youtube-dl is
only used if mkchromecast is called with '-y <url>'. So that will now
be broken until you switch to yt-dlp, but mkchromecast appears usable
without that functionality.

It looks like it calls "youtube-dl -o - <url>", which should work with
a simple replacement to "yt-dlp -o - <url>".

On Wed, 04 Jan 2023 01:42:22 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net>
wrote:
 > On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 00:58:30 -0500 Andres Salomon
<dilinger@queued.net>
 > wrote:
[...]
 >  >
 >  > This bug is filed as normal for now, but will likely become
 >  > release-critical once the new youtube-dl dummy package is
uploaded to
 >  > unstable.
 >  >
 >
 > The new youtube-dl dummy package has now been uploaded to unstable.
 > However, I'm not raising the severity on this bug because youtube-dl
is
 > only used if mkchromecast is called with '-y <url>'. So that will now
 > be broken until you switch to yt-dlp, but mkchromecast appears usable
 > without that functionality.
 >


I'm raising the severity of this bug now that bookworm has been
released and we're planning to ask the ftpmasters to remove the
youtube-dl package from sid & trixie. Please go ahead and change the
dependency to yt-dlp instead, as it is the last package in the archive
with a hard dependency on the youtube-dl package.

Control: tags -1 bookworm trixie sid

The fix will then also require backporting to bookworm,
due to the youtube-dl dummy package not providing a wrapper.

cu
Adrian

On Tue, Jul 11 2023 at 12:45:13 PM +03:00:00, Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> wrote:


No, it won't. See the above comment about how it only calls youtube-dl
if supplied with the -y argument, and therefore is perfectly usable
without youtube-dl. Unless the release team and maintainer feel
otherwise and want to see it fixed in a point release, it doesn't
really rise to the level of release-critical for bookworm.

Control: tags -1 bookworm

The release team doesn't actually care about bug severities in *stable
and there is no requirement that only RC bugs could be fixed in *stable,
but this helps other people like me looking at what bugs should be
fixed there.

This bug looks like something someone (probably me) might want to fix
also in bookworm.

cu
Adrian

I am uploading a NMU to fix this.
The debdiff is attached and also available in git.

We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
mkchromecast, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.

A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.

Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1024216@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org> (supplier of updated mkchromecast package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
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Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Muammar El Khatib <muammar@debian.org>
Changed-By: Bastian Germann <bage@debian.org>
Closes: 1024216
Changes:
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A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
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Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed.  If you
have further comments please address them to 1024216@bugs.debian.org,
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.

Debian distribution maintenance software
pp.
Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org> (supplier of updated mkchromecast package)

(This message was generated automatically at their request; if you
believe that there is a problem with it please contact the archive
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Distribution: bookworm
Urgency: medium
Maintainer: Muammar El Khatib <muammar@debian.org>
Changed-By: Adrian Bunk <bunk@debian.org>
Closes: 1024216
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