[Samba] Will there be samba updates to Bookworm backports, while Debian is in pre release freeze?

[Rowland Penny]

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