samba - Mar 2025 - Will there be samba updates to Bookworm backports, while Debian is in pre release freeze?

Hi folks,

As Debian is preparing for a new major upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie, 
changes are frozen in different steps. From yesterday (March 15), there 
is a transition and toolchain freeze. From April 15 and on there are 
further, more strict freezes.

Does that imply that Samba updates to Bookworm backports will be halted 
during the freeze period?

Best regards,

Peter

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 13:53:26 +0100
Peter Milesson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As Debian is preparing for a new major upgrade from Bookworm to
> Trixie, changes are frozen in different steps. From yesterday (March
> 15), there is a transition and toolchain freeze. From April 15 and on
> there are further, more strict freezes.
> 
> Does that imply that Samba updates to Bookworm backports will be
> halted during the freeze period?
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
These are just my thoughts on the subject.

It is my understanding that 'backported' packages are taken from
'testing' and backported to 'stable'. At the moment,
'stable' is
Bookworm and 'testing' is Trixie, so from my understanding, Bookworm
backports should contain Samba from Trixie, the only problem is, it
apparently doesn't. The Samba package in Trixie at present is 4.22.0,
so there may be an update to come, only Michael can tell us this.

Once Trixie is released, I wouldn't expect there to be any further
updates to Bookworm backports, at that point, Trixie would then be
'stable' and Bookworm would be 'oldstable'.

Rowland

16.03.2025 15:53, Peter Milesson via samba wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> As Debian is preparing for a new major upgrade from Bookworm to Trixie,
changes are frozen in different steps. From yesterday (March 15), there is a
> transition and toolchain freeze. From April 15 and on there are further,
more strict freezes.
> 
> Does that imply that Samba updates to Bookworm backports will be halted
during the freeze period?
My plan is to support bookworm-backports for a little longer,
past the release of trixie.

Also, my plan for debian backports is to upload next updates of the previous
major version of samba while next major version of samba is available in sid,
even if these updates don't exist in sid, - for example, I might upload
4.21.5 to bookworm-backports while last 4.21 in sid was 4.21.4 and sid has
4.22.0 already.  Yes, it is a bit different than the usual debian backports
rules, but I see it as a better alternative, especially when sid has .0
version which has some rough corners.

So expect bpo to be supported both during and past trixie freeze.

Thanks,

/mjt