Broken in Xenial, vim requires python3 now

[Iain Lane]

laney@xenial (ubuntu-xenial|✔)> dch
YouCompleteMe unavailable: requires Vim compiled with Python 2.x support
Press ENTER or type command to continue

This is annoying. Please fix it.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/1940

[Marcin Konarski (marcin-konarski+u1)]

Not only YouCompleteMe is broken!
clang_complete and clighter also went down the tubes.
Very annoying.
What was the rationale behind the change?

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Josh Arenson (josharenson)]

Would it be possible to get a PPA with a version of vim where this isn't an issue? I've been trying to build it myself, but nothing has worked so far.

[methane (songofacandy)]

FYI, see https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues/1940#issuecomment-185630599

[Iain Lane (laney)]

Personally I have used apt to hold vim at a version before this change was made.

[Val Markovic (val-5)]

I'm the creator of YouCompleteMe. We're planning on supporting Python 3.3+ by the time Xenial is released.

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

thanks very much for this commitment. Once this is ready please subscribe ubuntu-sponsors to this bug report. We'll ne a feature freeze exception, but this should work, it's a leaf package not affecting other packages.

[Val Markovic (val-5)]

@Matthias Please note we (the YCM developers) have nothing to do with the vim-youcomplete package. We don't even like that it exists (the canonical and _only_ supported way to install YCM is from source with our `install.py` script). My commitment to have YCM ready for Xenial refers to our desire to have the from-source installation working, not the vim-youcompleteme package.

[Val Markovic (val-5)]

YouCompleteMe (and ycmd) has been updated to be python 3 compatible upstream.

[Josh Arenson (josharenson)]

@Val I really appreciate the hard and fast work on resolving this. However, I'm still receiving a traceback after building and installing the latest code. Where are the logs located so I can take a look and report back here if necessary? In addition, if you have a BTC or paypal address, I'll totally throw you a six pack.

[Val Markovic (val-5)]

@Josh Make sure you are using the only supported installation method, which is using our `./install.py` script. (See the YCM docs for details.)

Also, providing the traceback you're getting would go a long way towards resolving the issue for you. :) Note that the best place to report YCM bugs is the YCM issue tracker: https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/issues

[Onur Aslan (onuraslan)]

Hi guys. I am maintaner of ycmd and vim-youcompleteme packages for Debian. I saw this bug report few days ago and I updated ycmd and vim-youcompleteme packages for xenial.

They are available in here:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/ycmd.git
https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/collab-maint/vim-youcompleteme.git

Use ubuntu branch for vim-youcompleteme. It's using python3 to build vim-youcompleteme and both packages fully compatible and tested in xenial.

So if you wanna release new LTS with this packages consider uploading it (I am not sure if I have permission to do it myself).

Thanks!

[Matthias Klose (doko)]

ycmd now updated in 16.04 LTS

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package vim-youcompleteme - 0+20160327+git1b76af4-0ubuntu1

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vim-youcompleteme (0+20160327+git1b76af4-0ubuntu1) xenial; urgency=low

  [ Onur Aslan ]
  * New upstream release. (LP: #1538532)
  * Refresh patches for new upstreal release.
  * Remove 01-vim-expression-to-python-type.patch (fixed in upstream).
  * Update 00-path-to-server-script.patch to avoid using sys.executable
    for python interpreter path.
  * Update dependencies to use python3.
  * Run nosetests3 in override_dh_auto_test.

  [ Matthias Klose ]
  * Add breaks to vim-athena-py2, vim-gnome-py2, vim-gtk-py2, vim-nox-py2.
  * Use python3 for the packaging.

vim-youcompleteme (0+20160229+git94ec3ed-1) unstable; urgency=low

  * New upstream release.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 3.9.7 (no changes).
  * Update ycmd dependency version in d/control.
  * Update 00-path-to-server-script.patch to set ycmd path in ycm.paths
    module.
  * Increase complexity for flake8 in d/rules override_dh_auto_test.
  * Use HTTPS URI's for Vcs-Git and Vcs-Browser fields.
  * Remove python-flake8 and add flake8 into Build-Depends.
  * Add 01-vim-expression-to-python-type.patch.

 -- Onur Aslan <email address hidden> Fri, 01 Apr 2016 20:47:03 +0300