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Bug#1041068: yt-dlp: options in manual page don't work when pasted, due to non-ASCII prefixes
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Michael Gold
Jul 14, 2023, 12:51:24 PM7/14/23
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Package: yt-dlp
Version: 2023.07.06-1
Dear Maintainer,
The options listed in the yt-dlp manual page don't work when pasted onto
a command line. As an example, run "man yt-dlp", copy the first option,
and pass it as an argument to yt-dlp:
$ yt-dlp ‐‐help
[generic] Extracting URL: ‐‐help
ERROR: [generic] None: '‐‐help' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run yt-dlp "ytsearch:‐‐help" ) to search YouTube
This option actually needs to be "--help", which looks the same but uses
the ASCII hyphen-minus (U+002D). The manual uses "U+2010 HYPHEN", which
is not accepted as an option prefix.
/usr/share/man/man1/yt-dlp.1.gz, when uncompressed, uses only ASCII; but
comparing against /usr/share/man/man1/whoami.1.gz suggests that a hyphen
needs to be escaped with a preceding backslash. I don't see any similar
problem with "man whoami": the listed options work when pasted.
- Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages yt-dlp depends on:
ii python3 3.11.4-5
ii python3-brotli 1.0.9-2+b6
ii python3-certifi 2022.9.24-1
ii python3-mutagen 1.46.0-2
ii python3-pkg-resources 68.0.0-1
ii python3-pycryptodome 3.11.0+dfsg1-4
ii python3-websockets 10.4-1
Versions of packages yt-dlp recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20230311
ii curl 7.88.1-10
ii ffmpeg 7:5.1.3-1
pn python3-pyxattr <none>
pn rtmpdump <none>
ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2
Versions of packages yt-dlp suggests:
pn libfribidi-bin | bidiv <none>
ii mplayer 2:1.5+svn38423-2
ii mpv 0.35.1-4+b1
pn phantomjs <none>
-- no debconf information
Version: 2023.07.06-1
Dear Maintainer,
The options listed in the yt-dlp manual page don't work when pasted onto
a command line. As an example, run "man yt-dlp", copy the first option,
and pass it as an argument to yt-dlp:
$ yt-dlp ‐‐help
[generic] Extracting URL: ‐‐help
ERROR: [generic] None: '‐‐help' is not a valid URL. Set --default-search "ytsearch" (or run yt-dlp "ytsearch:‐‐help" ) to search YouTube
This option actually needs to be "--help", which looks the same but uses
the ASCII hyphen-minus (U+002D). The manual uses "U+2010 HYPHEN", which
is not accepted as an option prefix.
/usr/share/man/man1/yt-dlp.1.gz, when uncompressed, uses only ASCII; but
comparing against /usr/share/man/man1/whoami.1.gz suggests that a hyphen
needs to be escaped with a preceding backslash. I don't see any similar
problem with "man whoami": the listed options work when pasted.
- Michael
-- System Information:
Debian Release: trixie/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 6.3.0-2-amd64 (SMP w/32 CPU threads; PREEMPT)
Locale: LANG=en_CA.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_CA.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_CA:en
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)
LSM: AppArmor: enabled
Versions of packages yt-dlp depends on:
ii python3 3.11.4-5
ii python3-brotli 1.0.9-2+b6
ii python3-certifi 2022.9.24-1
ii python3-mutagen 1.46.0-2
ii python3-pkg-resources 68.0.0-1
ii python3-pycryptodome 3.11.0+dfsg1-4
ii python3-websockets 10.4-1
Versions of packages yt-dlp recommends:
ii ca-certificates 20230311
ii curl 7.88.1-10
ii ffmpeg 7:5.1.3-1
pn python3-pyxattr <none>
pn rtmpdump <none>
ii wget 1.21.3-1+b2
Versions of packages yt-dlp suggests:
pn libfribidi-bin | bidiv <none>
ii mplayer 2:1.5+svn38423-2
ii mpv 0.35.1-4+b1
pn phantomjs <none>
-- no debconf information
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