[Bug]: Beacon pyinotify packge not compatible with python >= 3.12

[giovanni-bellini-argo]

What happened?

since python 3.12 the pyinotify package is broken

seb-m/pyinotify#204

/opt/saltstack/salt/bin/python3.14 -c "import pyinotify"
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
    import pyinotify
  File "/opt/saltstack/salt/extras-3.14/pyinotify.py", line 71, in <module>
    import asyncore
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'asyncore'

Type of salt install

Official pkg

Major version

3008.x

What supported OS are you seeing the problem on? Can select multiple. (If bug appears on an unsupported OS, please open a GitHub Discussion instead)

ubuntu-24.04

salt --versions-report output

Salt Version:
          Salt: 3008.2

Python Version:
        Python: 3.14.6 (main, Jun 11 2026, 02:19:05) [GCC 11.2.0]

Dependency Versions:
          cffi: 2.0.0
      cherrypy: 18.10.0
  cryptography: 48.0.0
      dateutil: 2.9.0.post0
     docker-py: Not Installed
         gitdb: 4.0.12
     gitpython: 3.1.50
        Jinja2: 3.1.6
       libgit2: 1.9.7
  looseversion: 1.3.0
      M2Crypto: Not Installed
          Mako: Not Installed
       msgpack: 1.1.2
  msgpack-pure: Not Installed
  mysql-python: Not Installed
     packaging: 24.0
     pycparser: 3.00
      pycrypto: Not Installed
  pycryptodome: 3.23.0
        pygit2: 1.20.1
  python-gnupg: 0.5.6
        PyYAML: 6.0.3
         PyZMQ: 27.1.0
        relenv: 0.22.14
         smmap: 5.0.2
       timelib: 0.3.0
       Tornado: 6.5.7
           ZMQ: 4.3.5

Salt Package Information:
  Package Type: onedir

System Versions:
          dist: ubuntu 24.04.4 noble
        locale: utf-8
       machine: x86_64
       release: 6.8.0-90-generic
        system: Linux
       version: Ubuntu 24.04.4 noble

[prontok]

You should to install pyasyncore module
salt-pip install pyasyncore

[giovanni-bellini-argo]

do you want to consider replacing it with something like asyncinotify or watchdog?