[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1031845: matrix-synapse: Missing requirement python3-icu 2.10.2 from bullseye-backports

[timmy]

IIRC, there were two possible versions listed by reportbug but I 
honestly cannot recall if ~bpo11+2 was in that list.
I recall trying pulling in updates when the service broke but had nothing.

At your email, I tried again to check of there was an update to synapse 
that I could test. It showed none. But this was a trick.

When I attempted to verify my installed version (so I could copy-paste 
easily to revert upon attempting to forcefully install bpo11+2), I found 
the maintainer of the server package I'm using has already updated to 
use bpo11+2, as auto-update appears to have already run and pulled it in 
early this morning, according to logs.

Apologies for the waste of time. Thanks for the prompt reply.


On 2/24/23 10:49, Andrej Shadura wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, at 03:54, Timmy wrote:
>> Package: matrix-synapse
>> Version: 1.74.0-1~bpo11+2
>> Dear Maintainer,
>>
>> Bullseye-backports version depends on python3-icu >=2.10.2. However,
>> only an
>> older version is available, causing the matrix-synapse service to hang
>> on start up.
>>
>> Another user found that removing python3-icu from the system allows synapse
>> to start. But I have no idea the impact of running the program w/o this
>> dependency nor what functionality may be missing.
> Are you sure you have verified this with 1.74.0-1~bpo11+2? Asking because that was the version which was supposed to fix the issue by doing this (citing from the changelog):
>
>   * Relax optional dependency on pyicu to 2.5.
>