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| -rw-r--r-- | changelog.d/4433.misc | 1 | ||||
| -rwxr-xr-x | debian/build_virtualenv | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | debian/control | 2 |
3 files changed, 16 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/changelog.d/4433.misc b/changelog.d/4433.misc new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..30f2912db2 --- /dev/null +++ b/changelog.d/4433.misc @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +debian package: symlink to explicit python version diff --git a/debian/build_virtualenv b/debian/build_virtualenv index 83346c40f1..8b51b9e074 100755 --- a/debian/build_virtualenv +++ b/debian/build_virtualenv @@ -6,7 +6,16 @@ set -e export DH_VIRTUALENV_INSTALL_ROOT=/opt/venvs -SNAKE=/usr/bin/python3 + +# make sure that the virtualenv links to the specific version of python, by +# dereferencing the python3 symlink. +# +# Otherwise, if somebody tries to install (say) the stretch package on buster, +# they will get a confusing error about "No module named 'synapse'", because +# python won't look in the right directory. At least this way, the error will +# be a *bit* more obvious. +# +SNAKE=`readlink -e /usr/bin/python3` # try to set the CFLAGS so any compiled C extensions are compiled with the most # generic as possible x64 instructions, so that compiling it on a new Intel chip @@ -46,3 +55,7 @@ cp -r tests "$tmpdir" PYTHONPATH="$tmpdir" \ debian/matrix-synapse-py3/opt/venvs/matrix-synapse/bin/python \ -B -m twisted.trial --reporter=text -j2 tests + +# add a dependency on the right version of python to substvars. +PYPKG=`basename $SNAKE` +echo "synapse:pydepends=$PYPKG" >> debian/matrix-synapse-py3.substvars diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control index b85e36c6ca..4abfa02051 100644 --- a/debian/control +++ b/debian/control @@ -27,8 +27,8 @@ Depends: adduser, debconf, python3-distutils|libpython3-stdlib (<< 3.6), - python3, ${misc:Depends}, + ${synapse:pydepends}, # some of our scripts use perl, but none of them are important, # so we put perl:Depends in Suggests rather than Depends. Suggests: |