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Thanks to Tim and Stevo. I wasn't very clear in my OP: my interest is not to set this up for my own use, but to try and document where problems might arise for MX-17 as we go forth.

If you are using youtubedl-gui, that can download and use the latest youtube-dl within the application..as can QMPlay2.

I do have plain vanilla jessie and stretch builds of smtube in my OBS repo, though the Stretch version is still built against Qt 4--I think I'll fix that. http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=127574

https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... ert/SMTube

I think I can pull a trick with the build-depends to get it to use Qt 4 if Qt 5 is older than 5.6, so I don't have to split the Stretch version into a different package like I did for ffmpeg.

Here's the smtube 17.5.0 MX 17 packages built on Stretch: https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BxE7w ... Vo1NXRVekU

They work in the antiX 17 beta, too.

The trick worked! Just these alternative build-depends make it use Qt 4 forJessie and Qt 5 for Stretch:

stevo - for smtube stretch you need to change gnome-mplayer with gnome-mpv since gnome-mplayer is not in stretch and is deprecated.

Here is a patch.

Thanks for finding that! But we don't need to patch anything in the debian folder, I can just edit the control file directly to add the gnome-mpv alternative dependency. I'll update the package.

Hmm, it also works with Dragon Player and QMPlay2, I can add those.

Edit: I also see that Stretch's xfce and Qt 5 doesn't suffer from the missing systray icon bug, like we had for qBittorrent when built on Qt 5, so that's good.

You're the packager, stevo and know best.

Sorry to OP jerry for dragging this thread off topic.

No, this is the topic actually: what problems do we have to consider with the move to Stretch? I know you're way ahead on this...

Stevo wrote:Thanks for finding that! But we don't need to patch anything in the debian folder, I can just edit the control file directly to add the gnome-mpv alternative dependency. I'll update the package.

Hmm, it also works with Dragon Player and QMPlay2, I can add those.

Edit: I also see that Stretch's xfce and Qt 5 doesn't suffer from the missing systray icon bug, like we had for qBittorrent when built on Qt 5, so that's good.

stevo - have you packaged the new/new version?

Whoops--I only did it in the OBS: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show ... ert/SMTube

If you can't use those sources and packages, I can do them in a couple minutes in antiX virtual machines. If that, do you want some kind of branding in the version, like "17.5.0.-1antix1"?

I also got sidetracked by finding out that the "apt install" command in Stretch can now install standalone debs and their dependencies, though it seems to throw a nasty yet harmless warning at the end. Tested with conky-legacy-all, and it correctly removed conky-all first. If it can install more than one deb at once, that puts it ahead of gdebi.

I can't download the file package: No data for home:stevepassert / SMTube

17.5.0.-1antix1 seems good to me