Hi, The salt package has been broken in unstable for several month now since python-tornado upgraded to version 5. salt needs major changes to support tornado 5 (which uses asyncio) [1]. I have waited for upstream to support tornado 5, but the tornado 5 support is still work in progress and I lost the hope that it will land in the development branch or a release in time for the buster freeze. I don't want to ship salt with a big patch to support tornado 5 risking to introduce bugs.
Therefore I like to: 1) Create a python3-tornado4 package containing the latest tornado 4.x release. This package would rename the tornado module to tornado4 to make it co-installable with python3-tornado. 2) Patch salt to use python3-tornado4 instead of python3-tornado. Once salt supports tornado 5, the patch and the python3-tornado4 package can be dropped. What do you think? Any reasons against it or do you have a better idea? [1] https://github.com/saltstack/salt-jenkins/issues/995#issuecomment-424168351 [2] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/pull/49398 -- Benjamin Drung System Developer Debian & Ubuntu Developer 1&1 IONOS Cloud GmbH | Greifswalder Str. 207 | 10405 Berlin | Germany E-mail: benjamin.dr...@cloud.ionos.com | Web: www.ionos.de Head Office: Berlin, Germany District Court Berlin Charlottenburg, Registration number: HRB 125506 B Executive Management: Christoph Steffens, Matthias Steinberg, Achim Weiss Member of United Internet
