Adding to this thread/bug-report per salt project and Debian packaging, salt is unfortunately probably not a good candidate for the Debian ecosystem.
The salt project current (2023-04) published lifecycle only lists 1.5 years of
support for typical releases. After that their "extended life support" is
really "best-effort technical support for customers" with "No bug fixes, [or]
security fixes".
This is clearly short of the Debian stable target support period of 3 years.
https://docs.saltproject.io/salt/install-guide/en/latest/topics/salt-version-support-lifecycle.html#salt-version-support-lifecycle
Salt Project Product support lifecycle excerpt:
Salt version Phase 1 support ends Phase 2 support ends Phase 3 support
ends Extended life support
3005 Feb 25, 2023 Aug 25, 2023 Feb 25, 2024
Feb 25, 2025
3004 Apr 18, 2022 Oct 18, 2022 Apr 18, 2023
Apr 18, 2024
3003 Sep 30, 2021 Mar 31, 2022 Sep 30, 2022
Sep 30, 2023
3002 Apr 21, 2021 Oct 21, 2021 Apr 21, 2022
Apr 21, 2023
3001 Dec 31, 2020 Jun 30, 2021 Dec 31, 2021
Dec 31, 2022
3000 Aug 31, 2020 Feb 28, 2021 Aug 31, 2021
Aug 31, 2022
2019.2 Sep 30, 2019 Mar 31, 2020 Sep 30, 2020
Sep 30, 2021
2018.3 Oct 31, 2018 Apr 30, 2019 Oct 31, 2019
Oct 31, 2020
2017.7 Jan 31, 2018 Jun 30, 2018 Aug 30, 2019
Dec 31, 2019
2016.3 Nov 30, 2016 May 31, 2017 Nov 30, 2017
Nov 30, 2018
2015.8 Mar 31, 2016 Sep 30, 2016 Mar 31, 2017
Mar 31, 2018
2015.5 Nov 31, 2015 May 31, 2016 Nov 30, 2016
Nov 30, 2017
2014.7 May 31, 2015 Nov 30, 2015 May 31, 2016
May 31, 2017
regards,
donfede
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