Bug#779985: libwww-youtube-download-perl: youtube-videos fail to download

[Andreas Glaeser]

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Package: libwww-youtube-download-perl
Version: 0.56-1
Severity: important

Dear Maintainer,

say I want to download, that video of motherfucking LADY GAGA:

> andrew at s5:~$ youtube-download https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohs0a-QnFF4
> garbage after JSON object, at character offset 33125 (before ";ytplayer.load = fun...")
> at /usr/share/perl5/WWW/YouTube/Download.pm line 226. andrew at s5:~$ 

It does not work, it is most probably due to Youtube's transition from Flash videos to
HTML5.
In my opinion, if it is not easy to fix the problem, it is safer to leave the package out
of Jessie, when it is going to be released.
It does not make sense to keep it in, when it is not workable anymore, because of changes
to that webservice, which will not be rolled back again.


- -- System Information:
Debian Release: 8.0
  APT prefers testing-updates
  APT policy: (500, 'testing-updates'), (500, 'testing')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.16.7-ckt4ckead (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init)

Versions of packages libwww-youtube-download-perl depends on:
ii  libhtml-parser-perl  3.71-1+b3
ii  libjson-perl         2.61-1
ii  liburi-perl          1.64-1
ii  libwww-perl          6.08-1
ii  libxml-treepp-perl   0.39-1
ii  perl                 5.20.2-2

libwww-youtube-download-perl recommends no packages.

libwww-youtube-download-perl suggests no packages.

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