[Pkg-matrix-maintainers] Bug#1129026: matrix-synapse: pympler was removed from debian, still recommended

Andrej Shadura andrew at shadura.me
Thu Feb 26 16:19:36 GMT 2026


Hello,

On Thu, 26 Feb 2026, at 15:06, grin wrote:
>> (but the memory management consequences may be relevant).
>
> It is only used in ./util/caches/lrucache.py to guess at cached object 
> size, and return 0 if it's not available.
> Actually only used when caches.TRACK_MEMORY_USAGE is True, which I 
> guess normally isn't.
>
> So my guess is that it won't be missed, but old version being available 
> defintely breaks the package.

Thanks, I’ll add a Breaks. Technically, it’s pympler that breaks it, but one can argue it goes both ways :)

-- 
Cheers,
  Andrej



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