Comment 4 for bug 1575802

This bug is rated medium and it has been over a year.

Here is what I get in Ubuntu 17.10:

$ apt show powerline
Package: powerline
Version: 2.5-1.1
Priority: optional
Section: universe/python
Origin: Ubuntu
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <email address hidden>
Original-Maintainer: Jerome Charaoui <email address hidden>
Bugs: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+filebug
Installed-Size: 251 kB
Depends: python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~), libc6 (>= 2.4), python-powerline
Recommends: fonts-powerline, python3-powerline
Suggests: python-powerline-doc, vim-addon-manager
Breaks: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Replaces: python-powerline (<< 0~20140216-2)
Enhances: awesome, bash, ipython, tmux, vim-nox, zsh
Homepage: https://github.com/Lokaltog/powerline
Download-Size: 42.5 kB
APT-Sources: http://ca.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu artful/universe amd64 Packages
Description: prompt and statusline utility
 Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and
 prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux,
 IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
 .
 This package contains the Powerline executables.

$ sudo apt install -y python3-powerline
...
$ powerline
The program 'powerline' is currently not installed. You can install it by typing:
sudo apt install powerline
$ sudo apt install -y powerline
...
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  fonts-powerline powerline python-powerline python-psutil
...
$

Is it correct to assume that the desire to move Ubuntu to Python3 in 16.04 has lost almost all of its momentum. If this is indeed still a priority, it would be nice to get this resolved before 18.04.