[Discussion] yt-dlp versioning

[sadlerm4]

The yt-dlp package in terra doesn't follow upstream versioning, causing confusion.

The current version in terrarawhide is 20240117~git.1643686 where the date reflects when the terra package was built, but not the date when upstream tagged a nightly release. This isn't an issue for other -nightly packages because they don't use the date as the version number upstream, but yt-dlp does, along with a timestamp.

There is also a serious issue where running yt-dlp --version from the current terra package built from the latest commit outputs the current stable release version number.

The current stable release of yt-dlp is 2025.01.15

The current nightly release of yt-dlp is 2025.01.16.232854

The current master release of yt-dlp is 2025.01.16.024033

Therefore an average user will be going wtf why is the terra package newer than upstream??!!111!!!??!!????!!!111!

In addition, calling the terra package yt-dlp-nightly is actually a misnomer, because it is built directly from latest commit, and not actually the same as upstream's own nightly release, which is built every 24 hours.

I suggest a few things:

1. Sourcing the source code from https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp-master-builds instead
2. Adhering to upstream's versioning
3. Renaming this package to yt-dlp-master

[linear]

FYRA-191 [Discussion] yt-dlp versioning

[sadlerm4]

@korewaChino @madonuko thoughts?

[korewaChino]

what about yt-dlp-git?

[madonuko]

we could use the older versioning scheme then (%ver^%date.%shortcommit)

using the master builds is not a bad idea either

[sadlerm4]

what about yt-dlp-git?

i like that too, but the version number is still a problem.

either find a new versioning scheme that doesn't include the date, and also inject that into the code, or just follow the upstream master package

you can still call the terra package -git i guess

[sadlerm4]

(%ver^%date.%shortcommit)

unfortunately in this case %ver = %date

%ver is 2025.01.16

with how update.rhai works, you would end up with 2025.01.16^20250107.1643686, which is absolutely horrible

[sadlerm4]

if it's up to me i would just use the master builds, use upstream versioning, but call the package yt-dlp-git, and include in package description that it's built from yt-dlp-master

[madonuko]

honestly up to you, I don't see a problem with the original versioning scheme but yeah