Hello,
The reason as to why you aren't able to install salt-minion is that because the whole "salt" source package has been removed because it was unmaintained and unsupportable, according to the Debian News entry
https://www.debian.org/News/2024/2024062902 for the Debian 11.10 release.
Although the software stack of stable releases doesn't change, packages that are beyond the control of the Debian development team get removed for a multitude of reasons, including "salt" in your case for being unsupportable.
Best regards,
Aptivi
Hello everyone,
I tried to install a system with Debian 11 and a preseed file today
from our internal mirror and found out that the package salt-minion was
gone. After some research (our mirror snapshots every day) I found out
that between 2024-06-29 02:00 and 2024-06-30 02:00 the whole salt
directory was silently dropped from the upstream mirrors. Even
packages.debian.org does no longer display any information about it.
I was under the impression that the software stack of a
stable/oldstable release does not change anymore (safe for security
updates and suchlike), so I'm pretty flabberghasted by this. More so as
I cannot find a mention about this on debian-devel, where I would
assume such decisions would be discussed prior to the actual doing.
Can somebody please shed some light on this?
Best regards
JD