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On Tue, 6 Aug 2024 20:41:51 +0200 Anders ?stling via samba <samba at lists.samba.org> wrote: > Hello > I have an older Debian 11 with Samba 4.13 as domain member serving som > industrial systems with files. > Today I decided to upgrade both Debian (to 12) and Samba (to 4.17 and > then 4.20). The upgrade using the backport repo worked after some > extra steps. Som

...e okay to change, including having significant changes in packaging and upstream version changes too. Debian backports always "tracks" testing, - I mean, each package in backports is a backport from testing in a hope it will be useful. Samba is not an exception here, - I upload stuff to bpo12 once something intersting happens with samba in trixie. An interesting part here is that *packaging* changes happens *not* when switching to a new upstream version (be it samba or not) - unless upstream changes too much so significant packaging changes are needed too. On the contrary, most packag...

Hello mjt, I can only speak for myself: For bigger upgrades (e. g. samba 4.19 -> 4.20) Im manually updating a few servers and check if everything works. For smaller updates (e. g. 4.20.1 -> 4.20.2) Im using saltstack to automate updating the servers. It suppresses these messages and this is fine in 99% of all cases because a minor update is not supposed to change much (e. g. split a