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livestreamer no longer supported

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From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
To: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
Cc: 25356 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, dian_cecht <at> zoho.com
Subject: Re: bug#25356: livestreamer no longer supported
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 10:10:05 +0300

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Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name> writes:

[...]

> So, my weak preference is to supersede livestreamer with streamlink
> without creating the symlink.

Agree.  I could merge if see no issues with the following patch.

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From: Oleg Pykhalov <go.wigust <at> gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2018 02:06:32 +0300
Subject: [PATCH] gnu: livestreamer: Deprecate in favour of streamlink.
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* gnu/packages/video.scm (livestreamer): Redefine using ‘deprecated-package’.
---
 gnu/packages/video.scm | 27 +++------------------------
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gnu/packages/video.scm b/gnu/packages/video.scm
index 2d48c5aaf..0788b87f0 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/video.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/video.scm
@@ -1703,30 +1703,6 @@ pixel motion compensation, lumi masking, trellis quantization, and H.263, MPEG
 and custom quantization matrices.")
     (license license:gpl2+)))
 
-(define-public livestreamer
-  (package
-    (name "livestreamer")
-    (version "1.12.2")
-    (source (origin
-              (method url-fetch)
-              (uri (string-append
-                    "https://github.com/chrippa/livestreamer/archive/v"
-                    version ".tar.gz"))
-              (file-name (string-append "livestreamer-" version ".tar.gz"))
-              (sha256
-               (base32
-                "1fp3d3z2grb1ls97smjkraazpxnvajda2d1g1378s6gzmda2jvjd"))))
-    (build-system python-build-system)
-    (arguments
-     '(#:tests? #f)) ; tests rely on external web servers
-    (propagated-inputs
-     `(("python-requests" ,python-requests)))
-    (synopsis "Internet video stream viewer")
-    (description "Livestreamer is a command-line utility that extracts streams
-from various services and pipes them into a video playing application.")
-    (home-page "http://livestreamer.io/")
-    (license license:bsd-2)))
-
 (define-public streamlink
   (package
     (name "streamlink")
@@ -1756,6 +1732,9 @@ from various services and pipes them into a video playing application.")
 from sites like Twitch.tv and pipes them into a video player of choice.")
     (license license:bsd-2)))
 
+(define-public livestreamer
+  (deprecated-package "livestreamer" streamlink))
+
 (define-public mlt
   (package
     (name "mlt")
-- 
2.15.1

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Thanks,
Oleg.

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