Document common fix of Poetry problems by removing egg-info

changelog.d/13785.doc

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+Add docs for common fix of deleting the `matrix_synapse.egg-info/` directory for fixing Python dependency problems.

docs/development/dependencies.md

@@ -126,6 +126,23 @@ context of poetry's venv, without having to run `poetry shell` beforehand.
 poetry install --extras all --remove-untracked
 ```
 
+## ...delete everything and start over from scratch?
+
+```shell
+# Stop the current virtualenv if active
+$ deactivate
+
+# Find the venv for poetry
+$ poetry env info --path
+# Remove all of the files from the current environment
+$ rm -rf $(poetry env info --path)
+
+# Reactivate Poetry shell
+$ poetry shell
+# Install everything
+$ poetry install --extras all
+```
+
 ## ...run a command in the `poetry` virtualenv?
 
 Use `poetry run cmd args` when you need the python virtualenv context.
@@ -256,6 +273,16 @@ from PyPI. (This is what makes poetry seem slow when doing the first
 `poetry install`.) Try `poetry cache list` and `poetry cache clear --all
 <name of cache>` to see if that fixes things.
 
+## Remove outdated egg-info
+
+Delete the `matrix_synapse.egg-info/` directory from the root of your Synapse
+install.
+
+This stores some cached information about dependencies and often conflicts with
+letting Poetry do the right thing.
+
+
+
 ## Try `--verbose` or `--dry-run` arguments.
 
 Sometimes useful to see what poetry's internal logic is.