Installing salt-minion 2018.3.4 failing on debian jessie (8.8)

[cavepopo]

Description of Issue/Question

Trying to install salt-minion on debian jessie (fresh install) 8.8 fails.

Salt-minion needs salt-common:
The following packages have unmet dependencies: salt-minion : Depends: salt-common (= 2018.3.4+ds-1) but it is not going to be installed

which in turn needs python-systemd, but:
salt-common : Depends: python-systemd but it is not installable

Content of saltstack.list :
deb https://repo.saltstack.com/apt/debian/8/amd64/archive/2018.3.4 jessie main

Steps to Reproduce Issue

Spawning a brand new vm using debian 8.8 and trying to install the salt-minion 2018.3.4 should be enough

Versions Report

Target version: 2018.3.4

[garethgreenaway]

@dmurphy18 FYI.

[dmurphy18]

@cavepopo Removed the previous python-systemd dependency since it is already provided by the underlying OS. Building on Debian 8.7 on AWS, and the version that SaltStack used was causing conflicts with the version provided by AWS Debian 8.7.

Can you provide the output of apt-cache policy python-systemd to see what version is available to you, since as part of my investigation into the systemd conflicts, the version of python-systemd dated back to changes in Debian 8.5.

And curious as to why the python-systemd available is not installable
see vmware-archive/salt-pack#657

[dmurphy18]

@cavepopo fixing this for the next point release, see vmware-archive/salt-pack#657 for discussion of issue.
Marking this as duplicate and closing it since salt-pack is the correct location to discuss Salt packaging issues.

[dmurphy18]

@cavepopo FYI - Both of the Salt 2018.3.4 and 2019.2.0 for Debian 8 on amd64 repositories have been updated with a restored python-systemd package.

[cavepopo]

OK, good news, thanks for the update.