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

[Peter Milesson]

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?
>>
>> 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
>
>
Hi Rowland,

Thanks for the explanation. Maybe I did not formulate my question properly.

As the freeze period starts for testing (Trixie), there will be a point 
where no updates to testing will be allowed, which implies that neither 
Bookworm backports will get any updates. If I understand the Debian 
documentation correctly, only packages with limited impact on other 
packages will be allowed in the current phase (transition and toolchain 
freeze). Is Samba considered to have a high impact on other packages, or 
is it possible to assume that there still will be some updates to Samba 
in Bookworm backports?

The reason I ask is, that otherwise, there will be quite a hiatus with 
Samba updates, until Trixie is released (probably July-August), and 
Samba 4.23 almost knocking on the door.

Best regards,

Peter