On 24/04/2019 02:11, Linda Lapinlampi wrote: > This package has "Recommends: python3-lxml" already
> APT should also install recommended packages by default, unless the > sysadmin makes changes to APT::Install-Recommends option or passes the > --no-install-recommends option to apt install command. 1. You have absolutely no guarantee the python3-lxml is installed. > url_preview_enabled defaults to False in default homeserver > configuration from Debian (according to debian/homeserver.yaml file). Yes, as soon as I enable it manually and say # /etc/init.d/matrix-synapse start I got: [FAIL] TLS certificate file not found ... failed! This is that I mean under "hard to troubleshoot" as the error has nothing common with the real problem. > What would you propose to be fixed in the Debian package? Instead of eating stderr to devnul, initscript must show it to the terminal. > As far as I'm concerned, upstream makes at least an effort to tell you > need to install python3-lxml if it's missing with url_preview_enabled > option enabled. > and it's not a hard dependency to run Synapse per se. Only after I'll become synapse user and run it manually with all options. And it's hard! -- sergio.

