From 3b476f57679f21b1bff6c5c90f19e64eaca00fd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Erik Johnston <erik@matrix.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2019 15:33:32 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Fix debian packages for sid being called buster. (#5775)

* Fix debian packages for sid being called buster.

I don't know why the sid images return buster as its codename in
`lsb_release` but it does, so lets just grab the codename from the
distro we pass into dockerfile

* Newsfile
---
 changelog.d/5775.bugfix        | 1 +
 docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv | 5 +++++
 docker/build_debian.sh         | 3 ++-
 3 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
 create mode 100644 changelog.d/5775.bugfix

diff --git a/changelog.d/5775.bugfix b/changelog.d/5775.bugfix
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..b124897d80
--- /dev/null
+++ b/changelog.d/5775.bugfix
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Fix debian packaging scripts to correctly build sid packages.
diff --git a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
index 0117ab8bcc..ac9ebcfd88 100644
--- a/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
+++ b/docker/Dockerfile-dhvirtualenv
@@ -42,6 +42,11 @@ RUN cd dh-virtualenv-1.1 && dpkg-buildpackage -us -uc -b
 ###
 FROM ${distro}
 
+# Get the distro we want to pull from as a dynamic build variable
+# (We need to define it in each build stage)
+ARG distro=""
+ENV distro ${distro}
+
 # Install the build dependencies
 #
 # NB: keep this list in sync with the list of build-deps in debian/control
diff --git a/docker/build_debian.sh b/docker/build_debian.sh
index 6ed2b39898..f312f0715f 100644
--- a/docker/build_debian.sh
+++ b/docker/build_debian.sh
@@ -4,7 +4,8 @@
 
 set -ex
 
-DIST=`lsb_release -c -s`
+# Get the codename from distro env
+DIST=`cut -d ':' -f2 <<< $distro`
 
 # we get a read-only copy of the source: make a writeable copy
 cp -aT /synapse/source /synapse/build