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Description of problem: I don't think updating this package every second or third day is really needed. Are you able to say if it won't work if you update it, let's say, once a month? Updates twice a week for a stable release of fedora are really a bit too often for my taste and I doubt this would comply with the update policy of fedora. Johannes
The updates are usually covered by the Updates Policy: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Interoperability youtube-dl contains support for a lot of sites and upstream releases usually contain fixes for at least one site. Therefore it makes sense to follow upstream releases.
Do you want to know my opinion? In fact I want to retire it, as people can use youtube-dl -U to update it by himself. Fedora update may override updates just ran by users. But there still have many users don't want to use U option, they are waiting for update pushed by package maintainer. I try to catch up with upstream, the fact is that even Debian is faster than us. You should ask upstream to see if they can slow down. I'm sorry I have to focus all users.
What's missing here is a better workflow and a couple of dedicated testers to help inside the Fedora Updates System. You would need to cherry-pick upstream releases and decide which release shall become a test-update at Fedora, ignoring subsequent upstream releases meanwhile. Obviously, if upstream releases almost daily, you cannot sync with that very well, if your test-update needs to wait at most 7 days before it would reach the stable repo. Looking at https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/youtube-dl there are mass-updates for F20/F19/F18 and several obsolete ones, because you have replaced an already active test-update with a newer upstream release. Once been marked stable, you cannot release another one in less than 7 days, unless there is a tester that helps with regard to the karma threshold.
(In reply to Michael Schwendt from comment #3) > What's missing here is a better workflow and a couple of dedicated testers > to help inside the Fedora Updates System. Agree. > Looking at > > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/search/youtube-dl > > there are mass-updates for F20/F19/F18 and several obsolete ones, because > you have replaced an already active test-update with a newer upstream > release. Once been marked stable, you cannot release another one in less > than 7 days, unless there is a tester that helps with regard to the karma > threshold. Fortunately, youtube-dl always has testers in Bodhi...
Still, I don't see a good reason to update on every upstream release.
(In reply to hannes from comment #5) > Still, I don't see a good reason to update on every upstream release. And I don't see a good reason to update once a month.
Well there is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases
(In reply to hannes from comment #7) > Well there is: > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Updates_Policy#Stable_Releases so please read comment 1
I couldn't find a good changelog upstream, with detailed changes. But if that's all ok and covered by the update policy, then just go ahead. I was just puzzled by the frequent updates and wanted to know the exact reason for it.
(In reply to hannes from comment #9) > I couldn't find a good changelog upstream, with detailed changes. But if There is the commit history: https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl/commits/master A problem with youtube-dl is, that it targets more websites than only youtube and therefore changes are required every now and then to keep it working with all supported sites. There are also a lot of unnecessary changes but it does not seem feasible to backport only the required ones.