On Wed, 16 Nov 2022 02:03:06 -0500 Andres Salomon <dilinger@queued.net> wrote:
> Package: celluloid
> Version: 0.20-2
> Severity: normal
>
> We are planning for the youtube-dl package to become an empty package
> that simply depends on yt-dlp (see
https://bugs.debian.org/994151 ).
> Your package has a "Recommends: youtube-dl". However, in looking
> through the source code, I don't see anything actually calling out to
> youtube-dl directly. I suspect that (since this package is a frontend
> for mpv) mpv is instead calling youtube-dl. Newer versions of mpv are
> aware of, recommend, and will prefer to use yt-dlp.
>
FYI, youtube-dl is now an empty package in sid.
I'm not raising the severity of this bug, since it doesn't appear that anything in this package breaks with the youtube-dl change.