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| -rw-r--r-- | INSTALL.md | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/8212.bugfix | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | synapse/python_dependencies.py | 4 |
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diff --git a/INSTALL.md b/INSTALL.md index 22f7b7c029..bdb7769fe9 100644 --- a/INSTALL.md +++ b/INSTALL.md @@ -73,7 +73,7 @@ mkdir -p ~/synapse virtualenv -p python3 ~/synapse/env source ~/synapse/env/bin/activate pip install --upgrade pip -pip install --upgrade setuptools +pip install --upgrade setuptools!=50.0 # setuptools==50.0 fails on some older Python versions pip install matrix-synapse ``` diff --git a/changelog.d/8212.bugfix b/changelog.d/8212.bugfix new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..0f8c0aed92 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/8212.bugfix @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +Do not install setuptools 50.0. It can lead to a broken configuration on some older Python versions. diff --git a/synapse/python_dependencies.py b/synapse/python_dependencies.py index 2d995ec456..d666f22674 100644 --- a/synapse/python_dependencies.py +++ b/synapse/python_dependencies.py @@ -74,6 +74,10 @@ REQUIREMENTS = [ "Jinja2>=2.9", "bleach>=1.4.3", "typing-extensions>=3.7.4", + # setuptools is required by a variety of dependencies, unfortunately version + # 50.0 is incompatible with older Python versions, see + # https://github.com/pypa/setuptools/issues/2352 + "setuptools!=50.0", ] CONDITIONAL_REQUIREMENTS = { |