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FS#50922 - [livestreamer] likely forking to streamlink over lack of maintenance

Attached to Project: Community Packages
Opened by Michael J Evans (mjevans) - Tuesday, 27 September 2016, 07:46 GMT
Last edited by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Saturday, 12 August 2017, 14:08 GMT
Task Type General Gripe
Category Upstream Bugs
Status Closed
Assigned To Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Architecture All
Severity Very Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

Details

While following a bug about twitch's API change...

https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1478

Someone pointed out that a potentially viable fork has been started due to lack of maintainer input.

https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/issues/1427

I wanted to file this bug to let the ArchLinux maintainer know that the upstream community is shifting to a fork of the project (which they seem likely to do if the prior project continues to stagnate).

https://github.com/streamlink/streamlink
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Closed by  Jelle van der Waa (jelly)
Saturday, 12 August 2017, 14:08 GMT
Reason for closing:  Fixed
Additional comments about closing:  streamlink is in the repos right now.
Comment by Jamie McClymont (JJJollyjim) - Wednesday, 11 January 2017, 07:54 GMT
To update this: Twitch authentication is completely broken (so it is impossible to watch Twitch streams), and streamlink has put out several stable releases and has continued to be actively developed since the fork.
Comment by Jelle van der Waa (jelly) - Thursday, 12 January 2017, 17:48 GMT
BTW, doesn't youtube-dl support twitch?

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