Lucid and maverick version of Youtube-dl no longer work

[Virgil Brummond]

Binary package hint: youtube-dl

When trying to download videos ( with permission), all that happens is a list of all the quality version not being found. I downloaded the latest python script from the authors site and it successfully downloaded the videos. I think the version in Lucid is incompatible with some update to youtube.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.04
Package: youtube-dl (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.32-25.45-generic 2.6.32.21+drm33.7
Uname: Linux 2.6.32-25-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Fri Nov 5 10:27:03 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04.1 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100816.1)
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: youtube-dl

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi there.

I can't even remember the version that comes with lucid (and the bug report apparently doesn't contain the version of the package).

Anyway, my recommended answer in this case is to just go grab the versions that I upload to Debian sid, as they are usually released only two or three days at most after upstream releases something and it is not unusual for me to include some patches that may happen to be in future versions.

That being said, I don't know which procedures I should follow to sync my packages in Debian with the ones in Ubuntu. If anybody could educate me, that would be great, as I have some other packages that are in need of a refresh.

Failing all that, I can try to keep an uploaded version of the packages on my PPA, if that's OK with you guys.

Regards, Rogério Brito.

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

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[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

Version of youtube-dl is 2010.04.04-1

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Judging from the Debian changelog I suppose that the Maverick version would be affected as well. Upstream has committed a fix in https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commit/d157d2597a5fe99db60304fe1e89523de78b7981 which landed in Debian in youtube-dl/2010.12.09-1. I'll see if that patch can be applied to Lucid and Maverick and if it fixes the issue at hand.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

for what it's worth, the patch does not apply cleanly to lucid or maverick sources. And it does not seem to be an immediately straight-forward port for lucid, either. The patch can probably be tweaked easily enough for maverick, though.

good night

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I run lucid, not maverick. Here's what I did for maverick.

1) run the maverick package in lucid and confirm the problem exists in that package as well
2) recompile the maverick package with the attached debdiff

but it looks like other code was added surrounding that change which is not yet part of the maverick package. The package patched with the attached debdiff fails in the following manner:

$ youtube-dl http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWpsOqh8q0M
  File "/usr/bin/youtube-dl", line 909
    video_url_list = [(existing_formats[0], url_map[existing_formats[0])] # Best quality
                                                                       ^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

I've taken it about as far as I can. Unassigning myself.

I've recompiled the natty package for lucid for me and can confirm that the problem is not present any longer. As a workaround, I've published that package in my "Stable" PPA for others who are looking for a fix for lucid (or maverick, the package should run in that release without any issues as well).

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi, Rolf.

As I mentioned many times, the very nature of youtube-dl (and similar packages, like clive, cclive, minitube etc.) make them very volatile. In other words, any such application will break and if we don't have a way to upload a new version, like I can easily do in Debian, we are subject to have broken, unusable packages in the distribution.

If we don't have a mechanism to provide speedy uploads, then we might as well stop distributing the software.

OTOH, I am willing to upload a copy of the package to Ubuntu whenever I upload a new version to Debian, to keep them in sync.

Regards, Rogério Brito.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Rogério, thank you for your comment. I understand your frustration. But as it is, Ubuntu currently does not have the equivalent of Debian volatile. At least I'm not aware of it. As you've seen, it was easy enough to fix for myself. But the situation remains as it is and I think that currently there is no way around an SRU (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates) to get a fix into the official repos. As I mentioned, it's not as straightforward to extract a minimal patch as I had hoped, so the software as shipped is bound to remain broken in the meantime. FWIW, the software shipping in the next release works fine (for the moment ;-))

[Michael Terry (mterry)]

Since 2010.12.09-1 is in natty, marking this Fix Released. If an SRU is filed, please open a release-targeted subtask.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Michael, strictly speaking you are right. This ticket does not affect Natty. But look at the title, this ticket has been about Maverick and Lucid all along.

Reopening the task to make sure it stays on the radar. Series nominations fall through the cracks.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

Hi there.

On Jan 10 2011, Rolf Leggewie wrote:
> As a workaround, I've published that package in my "Stable" PPA for others
> who are looking for a fix for lucid (or maverick, the package should run
> in that release without any issues as well).

Just for the record, I created a new PPA for keeping a fresh version of
youtube-dl available to Ubuntu users. I will keep it in sync with the
version in Debian's unstable.

    https://launchpad.net/~rbrito/+archive/youtube-dl

Besides all the goodies in the new version released this week, I also
updated the documentation.

Hope this helps,

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[Virgil Brummond (uraharakisuke153)]

Excellent, thanks! :)

[Micah Gersten (micahg)]

Since this will be fixed in the main archive, I'm marking the backports task invalid.

[Rolf Leggewie (r0lf)]

Oh, will it? I'm not seeing much activity, just everybody closing tasks left and right, but no real fixes. That's pretty frustrating.