The youtube-dl packages are outdated for most Ubuntu versions

[aaronfranke]

Also see: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/issues/13649

$ 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://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 Meaning, 3/4 of the time out of all times the package is outdated.

[Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito)]

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 Meaning, 3/4 of the time out of all times the package is outdated.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,

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[aaronfranke (arnfranke)]

Heavily related: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/youtube-dl/+bug/1529647

[SIDDHARTH (dhar-75-ap)]

I am soon going to add youtube-dl 2017.7.15 under ppa i.e ppa:dhar-75-ap/youtube-dl.I am final testing my builds,so wait for it. If you want to try it beforehand,navigate here https://github.com/siddht4/youtube_dl_deb

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.