this is no longer needed on python 3

Ensure good comprehension hygiene using flake8-comprehensions.

* Raise an exception if there are pending background updates

So we return with a non-0 code

* Changelog

* Port synapse_port_db to async/await

* Port update_database to async/await

* Add version string to mocked homeservers

* Remove unused imports

* Convert overseen bits to async/await

* Fixup logging contexts

* Fix imports

* Add a way to print an error without raising an exception

* Incorporate review

This encapsulates config for a given database and is the way to get new
connections.

This adds:

* a test sqlite database
* a configuration file for the sqlite database
* a configuration file for a postgresql database (using the credentials in `.buildkite/docker-compose.pyXX.pgXX.yaml`)

as well as a new script named `.buildkite/scripts/test_synapse_port_db.sh` that:

1. installs Synapse
2. updates the test sqlite database to the latest schema and runs background updates on it
3. creates an empty postgresql database
4. run the `synapse_port_db` script to migrate the test sqlite database to the empty postgresql database (with coverage)

Step `2` is done via a new script located at `scripts-dev/update_database`.

The test sqlite database is extracted from a SyTest run, so that it can be considered as an actual homeserver's database with actual data in it.

Add a linting script that enforces all boolean values in the default config be lowercase.

This has annoyed me for a while so I decided to fix it.

This doesn't work, and afaict hasn't been used since 2015.

Add a dev script to cover all the different linting steps.

* py3 fixes for federation_client
* .well-known support for federation_client

* Fix check-newsfragment script

I previously broke this so that it always succeeded...

* more fixes

* fix newsfiles

* You need an entry in the debian changelog (and not a regular newsfragment)
  for debian packaging changes.
* Regular newsfragments must end in full stops.

Rewrite this in python so that it can be run in parallel.

Broadly three things here:

* disable W504 which seems a bit whacko
* remove a bunch of `as e` expressions from exception handlers that don't use
  them
* use `r""` for strings which include backslashes

Also, we don't use pep8 any more, so we can get rid of the duplicate config
there.

Signed-off-by: Schnuffle <schnuffle@github.com>

* changelog

* reduce circleci config

* plus a handy script

* fix regex