On Wed, Feb 03, 2021 at 05:35:38PM +0000, Mark Hindley wrote:
> Devuan uses the Debian package of salt-minion directly without recompilation,
> so if this line is not present in the Buster version of the initscript, I
> wonder if you might have edited the file yourself at some point?

Actually, I should have looked first. AFAICS, it is present in the
salt-minion_2018.3.4+dfsg1-6+deb10u2_all.deb initscript at line 18.

So this is a Debian bug. Please report it (together with your patch) directly to
Debian's BTS.

Thanks

Mark