youtube-dl broken on older releases

Hello Evan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted youtube-dl into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Martin,

On Fri, Jan 13, 2012 at 15:13, Martin Pitt <email address hidden> wrote:
> Accepted youtube-dl into lucid-proposed, the package will build now and
> be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See
> https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to
> enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Is there anything that I can do regarding Ubuntu when I upload a new
version of youtube-dl to Debian that is known to fix serious/grave
problems, other than stand by watching, while the fix is obvious?

Regards,

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Martin: Thanks as always - I've tested the Lucid package, and I'm able to download Youtube videos.

Rogerio: Normally, we sync packages in unstable into our development release automatically. For the current release (12.04 / precise), we're syncing from testing. You can explicitly request that we sync a package using the requestsync program, which is in ubuntu-dev-tools (in both Debian and Ubuntu)

For our stable releases, our process (https://wiki.ubuntu.com/StableReleaseUpdates) generally requires minimal patches in order to minimize regression risk, but we can generally relax that for software that has already regressed due to changes in external services. You can either go through the process on the wiki page (open a bug with an appropriate description, generate a debdiff, and attach it to the bug), but you should also feel free to try and find somebody in #ubuntu-motu on Freenode to supervise the SRU process. At least for the moment, I'm comfortable volunteering to do that, so feel free to ping me (broder) directly.

This bug was fixed in the package youtube-dl - 2011.08.04-1~lucid0.1

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youtube-dl (2011.08.04-1~lucid0.1) lucid-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport new upstream release to Lucid to fix changes in Youtube. (LP:
    #915029)
 -- Evan Broder <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:07:15 -0500

Hello Evan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted youtube-dl into maverick-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Hello Evan, or anyone else affected,

Accepted youtube-dl into natty-proposed, the package will build now and be available in a few hours. Please test and give feedback here. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Testing/EnableProposed for documentation how to enable and use -proposed. Thank you in advance!

Verified both maverick and natty. Thanks, Martin.

This bug was fixed in the package youtube-dl - 2011.08.04-1~maverick0.1

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youtube-dl (2011.08.04-1~maverick0.1) maverick-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport new upstream release to Maverick to fix changes in
    Youtube. (LP: #915029)
 -- Evan Broder <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:59:23 -0500

This bug was fixed in the package youtube-dl - 2011.08.04-1~natty0.1

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youtube-dl (2011.08.04-1~natty0.1) natty-proposed; urgency=low

  * Backport new upstream release to Natty to fix changes in Youtube. (LP:
    #915029)
 -- Evan Broder <email address hidden> Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:53:50 -0500