The youtube-dl packages are outdated for most Ubuntu versions
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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youtube-dl (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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SIDDHARTH |
Bug Description
Also see: https:/
$ sudo apt install youtube-dl
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
youtube-dl is already the newest version (2016.02.22-1).
0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
As listed on the main page for this package https:/
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-
Changed in youtube-dl (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → SIDDHARTH (dhar-75-ap) |
Changed in youtube-dl (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | SIDDHARTH (dhar-75-ap) → nobody |
Changed in youtube-dl (Ubuntu): | |
assignee: | nobody → SIDDHARTH (dhar-75-ap) |
Changed in youtube-dl (Ubuntu): | |
status: | Confirmed → Opinion |
status: | Opinion → Confirmed |
Hi.
On Jul 14 2017, aaronfranke wrote: /github. com/rg3/ youtube- dl/issues/ 13649
> Also see: https:/
I will take a look at that later.
> As listed on the main page for this package /launchpad. net/ubuntu/ +source/ youtube- dl the version distributed
> https:/
> 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 Meaning, 3/4 of the time out of all times the package is outdated.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,
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