Bug#839903: vim-gtk: no python support anymore: Error: ... requires Vim to be compiled with +python

[James McCoy]

On Sun, Oct 09, 2016 at 12:43:21PM +0200, Wolf wrote:
> > Both Python and Python3 can't be enabled at the same time
> 
> yeah no, both can be enabled at the same time.
> 
> --enable-pythoninterp=dynamic --enable-python3interp=dynamic

Been there, done that.

  vim (2:7.3.000+hg~ee53a39d5896-1) unstable; urgency=low

    * New upstream release.
    * debian/rules:
      + Explicitly use the dynamic loading Python interfaces.
      + Remove cleanup from clean target which are now properly handled by
        upstream's Makefile.
    * Update version information in documentation.

   -- James Vega <jamessan at debian.org>  Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:34:02 -0400

However, I disabled that because dynamic loading of the libraries, along
with having the Vim packages only Recommend instead of Depend on them,
provides the possibility that they won't be upgraded together when
there's been an ABI bump.  That would cause Vim to crash if it had been
rebuilt against the newer language bindings but the user hadn't upgraded
them.  That's not something I think is acceptable.

See some more discussion here:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=729924#10

Cheers,
-- 
James
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