Bug#960838: get-flash-videos: Abandoned upstream, broken for many use cases ⇒ consider removing

[intrigeri at debian.org]

Package: get-flash-videos
Severity: normal
User: debian-perl at lists.debian.org
Usertags: rm-candidate

AFAICT upstream has been inactive for 2 years.

This kind of software needs constant updating to remain useful, as
indicated by #750872 and the pile of non-handled upstream bug reports
that report breakage on website X or Y.

Given this, it's not surprise to me that popcon has been steadily
decreasing since 2015.

In contrast, youtube-dl is actively maintained and its popcon steadily
increasing. Judging by the package descriptions, youtube-dl claims to
support vastly more websites, including most of those that
get-flash-videos itself claims to support.

So at first glance, I don't think we're serving our users well by
including get-flash-videos in the distribution. I'd rather see them
not have to wonder and choose, and instead directly find the best
maintained piece of software.

On top of this,get-flash-videos is the only reverse-dependency of
libdata-amf-perl, which causes trouble (#845812).

I propose we remove both packages from the archive.
Thoughts?