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

On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:54:16 +0100
Peter Milesson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 16.03.2025 15:05, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> > 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?
> >>
Anything I say on the subject is pure conjecture on my part, Michael
should know, he is the Debian Samba maintainer.

However (posh word for 'but'), if you go here:

https://backports.debian.org/

There is this paragraph:

Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called
"testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable.
Because
the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily
upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes
out. 

From reading that, it seems to me that because Trixie has 4.22.0 at the
moment, it could be backported to bookworm-backports, but Micheal will
have to comment on that. I would expect there to be no further updates
to bookworm once Debian freezes, mainly because there will be nothing
new to backport.

Rowland

On 16.03.2025 16:45, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2025 15:54:16 +0100
> Peter Milesson via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> On 16.03.2025 15:05, Rowland Penny via samba wrote:
>>> 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?
>>>>
> Anything I say on the subject is pure conjecture on my part, Michael
> should know, he is the Debian Samba maintainer.
>
> However (posh word for 'but'), if you go here:
>
> https://backports.debian.org/
>
> There is this paragraph:
>
> Backports are packages taken from the next Debian release (called
> "testing"), adjusted and recompiled for usage on Debian stable.
Because
> the package is also present in the next Debian release, you can easily
> upgrade your stable+backports system once the next Debian release comes
> out.
>
>  From reading that, it seems to me that because Trixie has 4.22.0 at the
> moment, it could be backported to bookworm-backports, but Micheal will
> have to comment on that. I would expect there to be no further updates
> to bookworm once Debian freezes, mainly because there will be nothing
> new to backport.
>
> Rowland
>
>
Thanks Rowland,

Yes, it seems that 4.22.0 will (probably) be the last Samba update for a 
long time for Debian. Normally, I do not install the first release in a 
new series, but it seems that even those have been quite stable for some 
years. Just crossing my fingers, that nothing serious pops up until 
Trixie is released.

Best regards,

Peter