diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index fbb44cb94b..8eaca85232 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,44 @@
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.4) stable; urgency=medium
+
+ * New synapse release 1.12.4.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Thu, 23 Apr 2020 10:58:14 -0400
+
+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.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Mon, 02 Apr 2020 19:02:17 +0000
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+ * New synapse release 1.12.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Mon, 02 Apr 2020 11:30:47 +0000
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.12.0) stable; urgency=medium
+
+ * New synapse release 1.12.0.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Mon, 23 Mar 2020 12:13:03 +0000
+
+matrix-synapse-py3 (1.11.1) stable; urgency=medium
+
+ * New synapse release 1.11.1.
+
+ -- Synapse Packaging team <packages@matrix.org> Tue, 03 Mar 2020 15:01:22 +0000
+
matrix-synapse-py3 (1.11.0) stable; urgency=medium
* New synapse release 1.11.0.
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
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