[Pkg-samba-maint] bookworm-security: package samba/2:4.17.10+dfsg-0+deb12u1

[Moritz Muehlenhoff]

On Thu, Jul 20, 2023 at 09:07:35PM +0200, Moritz Muehlenhoff wrote:
> > The fix for the recent windows updates is trivial to apply to 4.13,
> > it's a simple patch which applies to 4.10 and even 4.7.  But this is
> > like pretending we're doing something with that one, - nope, we're
> > not. Maybe this should be made official really, I just don't know how
> > to do that properly.
> 
> Nah, let's avoid solutions which provide a false sense of security. We can
> tell people to upgrade to Bookworm and in the interim move to
> bullseye-backports. I'll draft some text for the advisory.

How about the following:

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The version of Samba in Debian 11/Bullseye is based on Samba 4.13
and faces multiple interoperability and maintenance issues with
current Windows clients at this point, which cannot be reasonably
backport any longer. The library packages and client side tools will
continue to work fine, but the support for Samba server packages in
Debian 11 is discontinued. You can either upgrade Samba servers to
Debian 12/Bookworm or if that is not an option migrate to the the
version of Samba provided in bullseye-backports (which is a backport
of what is in Debian 12).
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Cheers,
        Moritz