Bug#1024226: git-annex: please replace youtube-dl suggests with yt-dlp

[Sean Whitton]

Hello,

On Mon 21 Nov 2022 at 03:05PM -04, Joey Hess wrote:

> Sean Whitton wrote:
>> Do you happen to know whether git-annex currently works with youtube-dl
>> replaced with yt-dlp?  Thanks.
>
> Yes, it does, with this git config:
>
> 	git config annex.youtube-dl-command yt-dlp
>
> If youtube-dl becomes a wrapper script calling yt-dlp, it would also work
> without that config.
>
> I've also changed git-annex to fall back to yt-dlp when youtube-dl is
> not in path; see attached patch. Also there was a small problem with
> parsing yt-dlp's output that prevented git-annex from displaying
> progress; see second attached patch.

Many thanks.  Just building now, will upload closing this bug shortly.

-- 
Sean Whitton
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