Re: request to backport memtest86+

On 10/31/22 15:20, David Pottage wrote:
> On 2022-10-31 14:02, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>> DMs can't upload to backports right?
>> Would be nice if somebody could upload the new memtest86+ v6.00 to
>> bullseye-backports. No changes needed.
>>
>> The one in bullseye is now very old and doestn't work correctly on
>> modern systems.
> 
> Agreed.
> 
> The old version of memtest86+ is worse that useless. It convinced me to 
> replace some perfectly good hardware at considerable cost, and I doubt I 
> am the only person affected.
> 
> I think that we should remove the old version of memtest86+ from the 
> archive so that it is not installed by mistake, or failing that patch it 
> so that it displays message to say that it cannot be trusted on modern 
> hardware.

If that's the case, then IMO, it'd be a good idea to attempt fixing it 
in Stable directly. Have you guys tried opening a bug with the stable 
release team?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)