samba - Jul 2025 - supporting debian-based systems before bookworm and jammy?

Hello Michael,

the wonderful thing is, that your repository provide samba in a version 
of our choosing for our servers.

So we're not forced to update to 4.22 yet, but can stay on 4.21. Im not 
familiar enough with the backports release policy to know when it 
switches to a new version.

Were currently on 4.21, but bookworm-backports is already on 4.22.

But if you decide to sunset your repositories, we'll go (back) to the 
backports and maybe pin it to a certain version.

Thanks for your work!

Have a nice day, Matthias.

Am 16.07.25 um 14:12 schrieb Michael Tokarev via samba:
> Hi!
>
> I'm reviewing my samba repositories for debian and ubuntu
> (http://www.corpit.ru/mjt/packages/samba/), and wonder if
> anyone still needs support for older systems, - for example,
> for debian bullseye?
>
> The last samba version which can be built on bullseye was 4.19.
> For later samba versions, at least some packaging tweaks is
> needed, for example, samba requires a more recent ceph than
> is available on bullseye (ceph_openat appeared in ceph 1.16,
> while bullseye has 1.14), and there are some other issues in
> there (like ldb is not linked with -ldl for some reason, so
> it mises dlopen/dlclose).? I can tweak the packaging to work
> on bullseye too, by avoiding building samba-vfs-ceph package
> and by fixing the ldb link failure, but is it really worth
> the effort?
>
> Looking at the http log briefly, I don't see anyone requesting
> samba for bullseye anymore.? Even for bookworm there aren't many
> users.
>
> BTW, is there an actual use for my repository to begin with, maybe,
> with some little effort, we can finally switch to using regular debian
> and ubuntu repositories?
>
> Thanks,
>
> /mjt
>
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17.07.2025 16:21, Matthias K?hne | Ellerhold Aktiengesellschaft via samba
wrote:
> Hello Michael,
> 
> the wonderful thing is, that your repository provide samba in a version
> of our choosing for our servers.
> 
> So we're not forced to update to 4.22 yet, but can stay on 4.21. Im not
> familiar enough with the backports release policy to know when it
> switches to a new version.
> 
> Were currently on 4.21, but bookworm-backports is already on 4.22.
> 
> But if you decide to sunset your repositories, we'll go (back) to the
> backports and maybe pin it to a certain version.
Hi!

I'm not (yet) considering removing my repository.  I'm merely asking,
for now, about the older releases such as ubuntu bullseye (which does
not have samba later than 4.19 anyway).  Current systems, including
ubuntu jammy, stays (for now anyway).

Yes, backports provides only one version, by design.  And it is more:
I too have a few systems running previous versions of samba (4.21)
from this same my repository, due to some issues we faced with 4.22
(most likely related to directory leases which we forgot to turn off).

/mjt