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# Ionen Wolkens <ionen@g.o> (2023-01-24) |
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# Mostly obsoleted by the better maintained net-misc/yt-dlp, please |
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# migrate. If had USE=yt-dlp enabled (default) then was likely already |
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# using through its youtube-dl compatibility wrapper and this will |
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# change nothing beside needing to ensure that it is not depcleaned. |
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# |
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# Upstream is mostly focusing on compatibility and old python support, |
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# still uses deprecated Nose for tests, and has not seen a new release |
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# to deploy fixes in a long time despite major issues (e.g. throttling). |
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# |
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# Been kept due to some packages lacking compatibility with yt-dlp's |
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# python modules, but none are left in tree. Those that call the command |
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# rather than modules will often work as-is with yt-dlp's wrapper. |
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# Removal: 2023-02-23. Bug #891917 |
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net-misc/youtube-dl |