Ok, answering my own email after playing around with the package.
On Sat, 10 Aug 2024 11:24:50 +0200 =?UTF-8?Q?H=C3=A5vard_F=2E_Aasen?= <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, 15 Jan 2023 23:34:45 +0000 Samuel Henrique <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hello Rob, > > > > I think the decision not to ship vim bindings happened before I was > > the maintainer of the package, but your suspicion is correct regarding > > Debian's vim not being built with python support. I don't think the > > bindings would work. > > > > Would it be possible to provide a new binary package, > vim-powerline/powerline-vim or something similar, to provide the > necessary bindings? > It definitively is, using dh-sequence-vim-addon, powerline can be installed as a Vim plugin, just like the Debian packages vim-fugitive, vim-airline and vim-youcompleteme. It might need some work to not break current users setup. > This package would then depend on Vim versions that has Python support. > > If we don't do anything, I believe the description and the Enhances > field in d/control should be updated, as it currently is misleading. > After finding and reading the README.Debian file in powerline, and following the extra steps, I got the plugin to work. The previous part is therefore wrong. In other words, the current description and Enhances fields is therefore correct. -- Håvard
