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 On Fri, Aug 9, 2024, 5:02 PM Johannes Drexl <johannes.dr...@nfon.com> wrote: > 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 >
