Merge tag 'v1.12.3'

Synapse 1.12.3 (2020-04-03)
===========================

- Remove the the pin to Pillow 7.0 which was introduced in Synapse 1.12.2, and
correctly fix the issue with building the Debian packages. ([\#7212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7212))

5 files changed, 46 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/CHANGES.md b/CHANGES.md
index 5cec3d817d..e78c8e48e7 100644
--- a/CHANGES.md
+++ b/CHANGES.md
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Synapse 1.12.3 (2020-04-03)
+===========================
+
+- Remove the the pin to Pillow 7.0 which was introduced in Synapse 1.12.2, and
+correctly fix the issue with building the Debian packages. ([\#7212](https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/issues/7212))
+
 Synapse 1.12.2 (2020-04-02)
 ===========================
 
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 03b30cd12f..642115fc5a 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.3) stable; urgency=medium
+
+  [ Richard van der Hoff ]
+  * Update the Debian build scripts to handle the new installation paths
+   for the support libraries introduced by Pillow 7.1.1.
+
+  [ Synapse Packaging team ]
+  * New synapse release 1.12.3.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org>  Fri, 03 Apr 2020 10:55:03 +0100
+
 matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.2) stable; urgency=medium
 
   * New synapse release 1.12.2.
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index a4d2ce2ba4..c744060a57 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -15,17 +15,38 @@ override_dh_installinit:
 # we don't really want to strip the symbols from our object files.
 override_dh_strip:
 
+# dh_shlibdeps calls dpkg-shlibdeps, which finds all the binary files
+# (executables and shared libs) in the package, and looks for the shared
+# libraries that they depend on. It then adds a dependency on the package that
+# contains that library to the package.
+#
+# We make two modifications to that process...
+#
 override_dh_shlibdeps:
-        # make the postgres package's dependencies a recommendation
-        # rather than a hard dependency.
+        # Firstly, postgres is not a hard dependency for us, so we want to make
+        # the things that psycopg2 depends on (such as libpq) be
+        # recommendations rather than hard dependencies. We do so by
+        # running dpkg-shlibdeps manually on psycopg2's libs.
+        #
 	find debian/$(PACKAGE_NAME)/ -path '*/site-packages/psycopg2/*.so' | \
 	    xargs dpkg-shlibdeps -Tdebian/$(PACKAGE_NAME).substvars \
 	        -pshlibs1 -dRecommends
 
-        # all the other dependencies can be normal 'Depends' requirements,
-        # except for PIL's, which is self-contained and which confuses
-        # dpkg-shlibdeps.
-	dh_shlibdeps -X site-packages/PIL/.libs -X site-packages/psycopg2
+        # secondly, we exclude PIL's libraries from the process. They are known
+        # to be self-contained, but they have interdependencies and
+        # dpkg-shlibdeps doesn't know how to resolve them.
+        #
+        # As of Pillow 7.1.0, these libraries are in
+        # site-packages/Pillow.libs. Previously, they were in
+        # site-packages/PIL/.libs.
+        #
+        # (we also need to exclude psycopg2, of course, since we've already
+        # dealt with that.)
+        #
+	dh_shlibdeps \
+	    -X site-packages/PIL/.libs \
+	    -X site-packages/Pillow.libs \
+	    -X site-packages/psycopg2
 
 override_dh_virtualenv:
 	./debian/build_virtualenv
diff --git a/synapse/__init__.py b/synapse/__init__.py
index bdad75113d..3bf2d02450 100644
--- a/synapse/__init__.py
+++ b/synapse/__init__.py
@@ -36,7 +36,7 @@ try:
 except ImportError:
     pass
 
-__version__ = "1.12.2"
+__version__ = "1.12.3"
 
 if bool(os.environ.get("SYNAPSE_TEST_PATCH_LOG_CONTEXTS", False)):
     # We import here so that we don't have to install a bunch of deps when
diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
index 3274eb9863..8de8cb2c12 100644
--- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py
+++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py
@@ -61,9 +61,7 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [
     "pyasn1-modules>=0.0.7",
     "daemonize>=2.3.1",
     "bcrypt>=3.1.0",
-    # Pillow 7.1.0 causes the following issue on debian buster:
-    # https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/2377
-    "pillow>=4.3.0,<7.1.0",
+    "pillow>=4.3.0",
     "sortedcontainers>=1.4.4",
     "pymacaroons>=0.13.0",
     "msgpack>=0.5.2",