Bug#681599: vim/python2.7: symbol lookup error: vim: undefined symbol: init_hashlib

[Julien Cristau]

On Mon, Jul 16, 2012 at 11:28:57 +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote:

> Hi James,
> 
> James McCoy <jamessan at debian.org> (15/07/2012):
> > So a simple binNMU won't help because it wouldn't have a tight enough
> > dependency and therefore could transition before python2.7, leaving a
> > broken Vim in Wheezy.
> 
> you could keep a serious bug open until python2.7 migrates, to solve the
> issue you're mentioning. That wouldn't help with partial upgrades
> though (upgrading vim without libpython2.7), so not really a solution.
> 
> > Shall I make a sourceful upload of Vim with a libpython2.7 (>=
> > 2.7.3-2) Depends and request it be unblocked or is there another way
> > we should solve this?
> 
> I think that's a way to go.
> 
> (Another might be to get python2.7 to bump its shlibs and to get packages
> rebuilt against it. But really, I don't know anything about the pythonish
> specifics…)
> 
There's not a whole lot python-specific there, it's a plain bug in
libpython2.7 AFAICT.

Cheers,
Julien
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