youtube-dl dead on arrival when installed from the apt repositories
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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youtube-dl (Ubuntu) |
Confirmed
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
$ lsb_release -rd
Description: Ubuntu 18.04.3 LTS
Release: 18.04
$ apt-cache policy youtube-dl
youtube-dl:
Installed: 2018.03.
Candidate: 2018.03.
Version table:
*** 2018.03.
500 http://
500 http://
100 /var/lib/
2018.03.14-1 500
500 http://
500 http://
$ youtube-dl 'cbP2N1BQdYc'
[youtube] cbP2N1BQdYc: Downloading webpage
[youtube] cbP2N1BQdYc: Downloading video info webpage
WARNING: Unable to extract video title
[youtube] cbP2N1BQdYc: Extracting video information
ERROR: Unable to extract uploader name; please report this issue on https:/
Apparently because YouTube has changed since then and the old code no longer works with it. The version of youtube-dl packaged in pypi (for installation via pip; 'youtube-dl --version' from within a venv shows 2018.03.14) seems to be outdated too and produces a similar error. The solution was to install the latest version from the projects github page: https:/
However, adding the newest version of the package to the repositories would not be a permanent solution. YouTube can change anytime and thus the youtube-dl in the repositories would have to be updated too correspondingly, is it "acceptable" to have such a fast updating package in an LTS version?
Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.