diff --git a/requirements/constraints.txt b/requirements/constraints.txt
index 36f27fee7392..a1763d0135f4 100644
--- a/requirements/constraints.txt
+++ b/requirements/constraints.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 wheel <= 0.45.1
 setuptools >= 65.6.3,< 69.0
+cffi<2.0.0 # newer versions require newer setuptools, which conflicts with setuptools constraint
+pycparser<3.0.0 # newer versions require newer setuptools, which conflicts with setuptools constraint
 setuptools-scm < 8.0.0
 pip >= 23.3,< 24.0 ; python_version < '3.12'
 pip >24 ; python_version >= '3.12'
diff --git a/salt/cli/__init__.py b/salt/cli/__init__.py
index 045f00f5b6aa..9d1244297d78 100644
--- a/salt/cli/__init__.py
+++ b/salt/cli/__init__.py
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 """
-The management of salt command line utilities are stored in here
+The management of salt command line utilities are stored in here.
 """