On 2024-08-09 13:31:02 +0000 (+0000), Johannes Drexl wrote: > 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?
A quick bit of digging on https://tracker.debian.org/ indicates the salt-minion package was not part of Debian 11[*] since it retained at least one severe bug[**] which was never fixed. The change you observed seems to probably be related to cleanup of lingering debian-security content[***]. Hope that helps. [*] https://bugs.debian.org/1069654 [**] https://bugs.debian.org/1009804 [***] https://bugs.debian.org/1074468 -- Jeremy Stanley
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