Powerline not work with vim

Bug #1633149 reported by Hồng Quân
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Bug Description

Powerline depends on python-powerline, which is Python 2, but vim is built with python 3 support, not python 2.

At the end, powerline doesn't work with vim. I suggest that let powerline package depend on either python-powerline or python3-powerline.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.10
Package: powerline (not installed)
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.8.0-22.24-generic 4.8.0
Uname: Linux 4.8.0-22-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.20.3-0ubuntu8
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Thu Oct 13 23:29:52 2016
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-10-13 (0 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.10 "Yakkety Yak" - Release amd64 (20161012.2)
SourcePackage: powerline
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

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Hồng Quân (ng-hong-quan) wrote :
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TJ (tj) wrote :

Marking as a duplicate of previous report.

Workaround is to:

sudo apt install python3-powerline

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