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

[Sean Whitton]

Hello Joey,

On Wed 16 Nov 2022 at 02:10AM -05, Andres Salomon wrote:

> We are planning to remove the youtube-dl package in the next Debian release,
> as upstream development had issues and has stagnated (see
> https://bugs.debian.org/994151 ). The upstream package was forked, and active
> development now happens in yt-dlp (which is an almost* drop-in replacement for
> youtube-dl). Your package has a "Suggests: youtube-dl". Please test your
> package with yt-dlp and update the suggests to replace "youtube-dl" with
> "yt-dlp" once you've verified that it works correctly with your package.
>
> Thanks,
> Andres
>
> * When yt-dlp is supplied the "--compat-options" option, it will revert to
>   youtube-dl compatibility for command-line arguments. See the yt-dlp man page
>  for more details.

Do you happen to know whether git-annex currently works with youtube-dl
replaced with yt-dlp?  Thanks.

-- 
Sean Whitton