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setuptools_rust should not be a runtime dep

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Description

This is a build time dep and not a runtime dep. At startup synapse should not check for this anymore.

Steps to reproduce

try to start synapse without setuptools_rust installed.

Homeserver

another home server

Synapse Version

1.68.0

Installation Method

Other (please mention below)

Platform

openSUSE Tumbleweed rpm

Relevant log output

Sep 28 03:06:30 tengu matrix-synapse[4251]: ERROR:root:Synapse 1.68.0 needs setuptools_rust, but it is not installed
Sep 28 03:06:30 tengu matrix-synapse[4251]: Missing Requirements: "setuptools_rust"
Sep 28 03:06:30 tengu matrix-synapse[4251]: To install run:
Sep 28 03:06:30 tengu matrix-synapse[4251]:     pip install --upgrade --force "setuptools_rust"

Anything else that would be useful to know?

No response

Issue Analytics

State:
Created a year ago
Comments:7 (6 by maintainers)

Top GitHub Comments

4reactions

DMRobertsoncommented, Sep 28, 2022

i.e. if the build requirements are ignored when doing poetry install

I would like to once again declare that I hate Python packaging.

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DMRobertsoncommented, Sep 29, 2022

could you advice which lines i should patch to workaround this issue until a fix is ready?

It’s difficult to say without knowing how the openSUSE Tumbleweed rpm is built. You could comment out this line for the time being.

https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/blob/bf9d549e3ad944e1e53a2ecc898640d690bf1eac/synapse/util/check_dependencies.py#L197

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