salt: T8973: remove feature

[c-po]

Change summary

As salt has been marked deprecated via T8056 and is thus deprecated in VyOS 1.5 and VyOS 1.4 it is time to remove it from the rolling release.

Types of changes

• Bug fix (non-breaking change which fixes an issue)
• New feature (non-breaking change which adds functionality)
• Code style update (formatting, renaming)
• Refactoring (no functional changes)
• Migration from an old Vyatta component to vyos-1x, please link to related PR inside obsoleted component
• Other (please describe): Feature removal due to deprecation

Related Task(s)

• https://vyos.dev/T8973

Related PR(s)

• salt: T8973: remove package build due to feature removal vyos-build#1221

How to test / Smoketest result

Embedded smoketest platform has a migration script

DEBUG - ok
DEBUG - test_vrf_bgp_pppoe_underlay (__main__.TestConfigVrfBgpPppoeUnderlay.test_vrf_bgp_pppoe_underlay) ...  time: 30.985
DEBUG - ok
DEBUG - test_vrf_ospf (__main__.TestConfigVrfOspf.test_vrf_ospf) ...  time: 23.493
DEBUG - ok
DEBUG - test_wireless_basic (__main__.TestConfigWirelessBasic.test_wireless_basic) ...  time: 7.111
DEBUG - ok
DEBUG -
DEBUG - ----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEBUG - Ran 51 tests in 1115.507s
DEBUG -
DEBUG - OK
DEBUG - vyos@vyos:~$ echo EXITCODE:$?
DEBUG - echo EXITCODE:$?
 INFO - Configtest finished successfully!
 INFO - Powering off system
poweroff nowCODE:0
 INFO - Shutting down virtual machine
 INFO - Waiting for shutdown...
DEBUG - poweroff now
 INFO - Waiting for shutdown...
DEBUG - poweroff now
 INFO - VM is shut down!
 INFO - Cleaning up
 INFO - Removing disk file: testinstall-20260609-192856-38f1.raw

Checklist:

• I have read the CONTRIBUTING document
• I have linked this PR to one or more Phabricator Task(s)
• I have run the components SMOKETESTS if applicable
• My commit headlines contain a valid Task id
• My change requires a change to the documentation
• I have updated the documentation accordingly

[coderabbitai]

📝 Walkthrough

Walkthrough

This PR removes the Salt minion service integration from VyOS. The system version increments to 33 with a migration that deletes existing service/salt-minion configurations. Supporting changes remove the salt-minion package dependency and the minion system user from the Debian package.

Changes

Salt minion service removal

Layer / File(s)	Summary
System version migration and config removal interface-definitions/include/version/system-version.xml.i, src/migration-scripts/system/32-to-33	System version bumped to 33; migration logic simplified to delete entire service/salt-minion subtree when present, replacing prior per-node deletions and hash_type→hash / mine_interval→interval renames.
Debian package and system user cleanup debian/control, debian/vyos-1x.postinst	Removed salt-minion package dependency and minion system user creation from post-install script.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	Title clearly describes the main change: removing the salt feature due to deprecation (T8973).
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check.
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Out of Scope Changes check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
Description check	✅ Passed	PR description clearly explains salt removal due to deprecation (T8056, T8973) with detailed change summary and testing results.

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✨ Finishing Touches

✨ Simplify code

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[github-actions]

❌ Typos detected in PR (1 found)

File	Typo	Suggestion
debian/control:383	nd	and

[github-actions]

CI integration 👍 passed!

Details

CI logs

• CLI Smoketests 👍 passed
• CLI Smoketests (interfaces only) 👍 passed
• Config tests 👍 passed
• RAID1 tests 👍 passed
• CLI Smoketests VPP 👍 passed
• Config tests VPP 👍 passed
• TPM tests 👍 passed

[sever-sever]

We agreed.to remove deprecated salt-minion feature.

[natali-rs1985]

Remove deprecated salt-minion support