Faust Application is creating internal topics which should not be created

[Prashant-1305]

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• I have verified that the issue persists when using the master branch of Faust.

Steps to reproduce

When the application is initialized in a Kafka Cluster Faust is creating an internal topic which is not being used. This is getting created with default settings.

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Expected behavior

Internal topic shouldn't be created in Kafka Clusters
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Actual behavior

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Versions

• Python version 3.8
• Faust version 6.1
• Operating system
• Kafka version 1.4.2
• RocksDB version (if applicable)

[patkivikram]

I believe the problem here is the internal *__assigner__leader topic which is created here is not honoring the replication factor set by the app.

[Prashant-1305]

Yes thats correct, __assignor-__leader is not honoring the replication factor set by the app