Ubuntu
youtube-dl package

  1. Bug #1704368
  2. Comment #1

Comment 1 for bug 1704368

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Rogério Theodoro de Brito (rbrito) wrote : Re: [Bug 1704368] [NEW] The youtube-dl packages are outdated for most Ubuntu versions

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 Meaning, 3/4 of the time out of all times the package is outdated.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