Hi Gilles, we have just uploaded a new salt version to unstable and this bug should have been fixed a while ago. As outlined in [0] I had to perform some additional cleanup steps before I was able to use salt-ssh with squeeze and wheezy targets again.
It would be fantastic if you could check if this problem still occurs with the version currently in unstable as we would like to close it otherwise. [0] https://github.com/saltstack/salt/issues/27355#issuecomment-197275457 -- Wolodja <deb...@babilen5.org> 4096R/CAF14EFC 081C B7CD FF04 2BA9 94EA 36B2 8B7F 7D30 CAF1 4EFC