Qubes-mgmt-salt-admin-tools deb package

Hi fellow qubers

Long time reader, first time poster

A salt-enabled AdminVM can be created with a Fedora-based template to run /usr/bin/qubesctl, but not it seems using a Debian-based template.

The qubes-mgmt-salt repo includes rpm_spec/qubes-mgmt-salt.spec.in to produce qubes-mgmt-salt-admin-tools rpm packages that include /usr/bin/qubesctl and the qubessalt python package.

There are no equivalent instructions in debian/ to build a qubes-mgmt-salt-admin-tools deb package and hence no package available in the deb repo.

I haven’t found any other threads on this forum or any issue tracking this.

Could there be some reason(s) why qubesctl and qubessalt are available for rpm but not deb? If it is possible but just overlooked, should I simply open a new issue at qubes-issues?

thanks, Sam

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