Drop support for and remove references to EOL Python 3.6 (#11683)

* remove reference in comments to python3.6

* upgrade tox python env in script

* bump python version in example for completeness

* upgrade python version requirement in setup doc

* upgrade necessary python version in __init__.py

* upgrade python version in setup.py

* newsfragment

* drops refs to bionic and replace with focal

* bump refs to postgres 9.6 to 10

* fix hanging ci

* try installing tzdata first

* revert change made in b979f336

* ignore new random mypy error while debugging other error

* fix lint error for temporary workaround

* revert change to install list

* try passing env var

* export debian frontend var?

* move line and add comment

* bump pillow dependency

* bump lxml depenency

* install libjpeg-dev for pillow

* bump automat version to one compatible with py3.8

* add libwebp for pillow

* bump twisted trunk python version

* change suffix of newsfragment

* remove redundant python 3.7 checks

* lint

1 files changed, 3 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/app/_base.py b/synapse/app/_base.py

index 579adbbca0..e5ee03b79f 100644
--- a/synapse/app/_base.py
+++ b/synapse/app/_base.py
@@ -16,7 +16,6 @@ import atexit
 import gc
 import logging
 import os
-import platform
 import signal
 import socket
 import sys
@@ -468,16 +467,12 @@ async def start(hs: "HomeServer") -> None:
     # everything currently allocated are things that will be used for the
     # rest of time. Doing so means less work each GC (hopefully).
     #
-    # This only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        gc.collect()
-        gc.freeze()
+    gc.collect()
+    gc.freeze()
 
     # Speed up shutdowns by freezing all allocated objects. This moves everything
     # into the permanent generation and excludes them from the final GC.
-    # Unfortunately only works on Python 3.7
-    if platform.python_implementation() == "CPython" and sys.version_info >= (3, 7):
-        atexit.register(gc.freeze)
+    atexit.register(gc.freeze)
 
 
 def setup_sentry(hs: "HomeServer") -> None: