[packman] youtube-dl replacement

[Luigi Baldoni]

Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2022 at 5:16 PM
From: "Giacomo Comes" <comes at naic.edu>
>
> On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 05:02:49PM +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> > On Tue, 04 Jan 2022, 16:52:24 +0100, Giacomo Comes wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jan 04, 2022 at 04:28:48PM +0100, Manfred Hollstein wrote:
> > > > On Tue, 04 Jan 2022, 16:19:32 +0100, Mathias Homann wrote:
> > > > > Am 04.01.2022 um 15:03 schrieb Eric Schirra:
> > > > > > Am Dienstag, 4. Januar 2022, 13:59:10 CET schrieb Mathias Homann:
> > > > > > > Am Montag, 20. Dezember 2021, 08:36:28 CET schrieb Mathias Homann:
> > > > > > > > I'm going to work on having my autobuild method work with the new
> > > > > > > > sources as well - might take a few days or so.
> > > > > > > I have a working package in https://pmbs.links2linux.de/package/show/
> > > > > > > home:lemmy04:branches:Multimedia/youtube-dl, the automated building similar
> > > > > > > to what is happening with Multimedia/youtube-dl works.
> > > > > > >
> > > > > > > I think we should switch - the original youtube-dl seems to be abandoned...
> > > > > > Think not.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > http://ytdl-org.github.io/youtube-dl/
> > > > > > https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > You're actually proving *my* point here: the original youtube-dl has seen
> > > > > *three* commits since the middle of the summer, and two of them were
> > > > > documentation. The fork yt-dlp has seen 29 commits only in the last three
> > > > > days, and two actual releases since the middle of december - looks much more
> > > > > active to me, especially when you remember how active the original
> > > > > youtube-dl used to be, with sometimes more than one release per day.
> > > >
> > > > I'm not sure the package is actually needed in Packman; a new package
> > > > has just been introduced at OBS:
> > > >
> > > >   <https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/openSUSE:Factory/yt-dlp>
> > > >
> > > > > Cheers
> > > > >
> > > > > MH
> > > >
> > > > Cheers.
> > > >
> > > > l8er
> > > > manfred
> > >
> > > In my opinion, such package is useful in packman.
> > > While the factory/tumbleweed rpm is kept updated,
> > > thats not the case for leap. For example, in leap 15.3
> > > there has been no update at all for youtube-dl
> > > and for leap 15.2 there has been only three updates in 18 months.
> > > This lack of updates in leap usually means that the installed youtube-dl
> > > is useless because it will fail to download many or all the video
> > > hosted on youtube. My solution was to manually install an updated rpm from
> > > tumbleweed or (better) have an automated update from packman.
> >
> > Fair enough. My idea was to branch/link the package from OBS to PMBS with
> > all Leap installations enabled where possible/necessary. This would help
> > to reduce the maintenance effort, wouldn't it?
>
> Exactly. That's perfect.
> Giacomo

The only issue is can see with that is the delay from release to acceptance into Factory.
But at least there's some code review.

Regards