Description of Issue/Question

the new salt-common package 2019.2 for debian 8 has a depency on python-systemd
which isn't in debian 8 default repo's.

Setup

clean vm debian 8

Steps to Reproduce Issue

run bootstrap.sh script

this gives the error:
salt-minion : Depends: salt-common (= 2019.2.0+ds-1) but it is not going to be installed

issue:
apt show salt-common
Package: salt-common
Source: salt
Version: 2019.2.0+ds-1
Maintainer: Debian Salt Team [email protected]
Installed-Size: 28.1 MB
Depends: python-apt, python-dateutil, python-jinja2, python-msgpack (>= 0.4), python-pkg-resources, python-requests (>= 1.0.0), python-concurrent.futures, python-tornado (>= 4.2.1), python-yaml, python-systemd, python-psutil, python:any
(<< 2.8), python:any (>= 2.7.5-5~)
Recommends: lsb-release, python-croniter
Breaks: python-mako (<< 0.7.0)
Homepage: http://saltstack.org/
Priority: extra
Section: admin
Download-Size: 6,334 kB

temp solution:
install jessie backports:

add this to sources.list
deb http://deb.debian.org/debian jessie-backports main

run bootstrap.sh again and this time everything get's installed.