#1094935 youtubedl-gui: fails to start download to path with quote

Package:
youtubedl-gui
Source:
youtubedl-gui
Description:
GUI on youtube-dl to download videos from a variety of sites
Submitter:
Paul Gevers
Date:
2026-10-15 16:41:03 UTC
Severity:
normal
#1094935#5
Date:
2025-02-01 15:52:17 UTC
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To:
Hi,

The Dutch variant of GNOME comes with a directory called "Video's". Note
the quote. If that directory is used as download directory in
youtubedl-qui, nothing (seems to) happens when the Download button is
pressed, not even an error message. When I start youtubedl-gui from the
command line, I see it passes a command to yt-dlp and there the quote is
not escaped. I assume that's the underlying problem.

Paul
#1094935#10
Date:
2026-09-30 13:59:04 UTC
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To:
Hi,
This bug have been fixed in v4.5.2
Thank you
Antoine "impromptux"
#1094935#21
Date:
2026-10-15 16:29:28 UTC
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To:
notfixed 1094935 4.5.2
thanks

Version: 4.5.3-1

This was fixed upstream in 4.5.2 by commit a411407 ("Escape ' character
in folder path (fix #15)") together with its follow-up 0fabc14 ("Fix
regression introduced in previous commit"), which escape every
single quote in the download directory before passing it to yt-dlp.

Upstream 4.5.2 was never uploaded to Debian; the first Debian upload
containing the fix is 4.5.3-1, so I'm closing the bug against that
version (and dropping the "fixed 4.5.2" marker, which doesn't
correspond to a Debian source version).

Thanks to Paul for the report and to Antoine for the fix.