Subject: Re: bug#56373: Updating synapse (Matrix Homeserver) Because it is Broken

From: Michael Rohleder <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 28 Aug 2022 05:24:04 +0200

Hi Zacchaeus!

Thanks for the report!

I think, synapse 1.30.1 changed the dependency of python-cryptography to
a newer version (which we currently have as python-cryptography-next).
But also python-pyopenssl and python-pysaml2 needs to be build with
cryptography-next [1] (or they fail in a byte2int() or similar at runtime
somewhere).

So we also need some more -next python packages to upgrade synapse from
1.29.

matrix-common is needed from version >=1.50.

Footnotes:
[1]  http://www.rohleder.de/gitweb/?p=guix.git;a=blob;f=mroh/guix/packages/python.scm;h=13ce4e8dd9822f443633385af6203fef78e198aa;hb=HEAD#l79
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