Re: request to backport memtest86

On 2022-11-29 23:43, Matt Taggart wrote:
> I would like to be able to use the new 6.00-1 version in stable as the
> existing version there does not work on many systems, modern but also
> even those 5+ years old. I think there is a good argument for
> including in a stable update, but either way can we get a decision and
> have it available in stable proposed updates or backports soon?

Do you need a backport to do that?

As far as I can tell, memtest86+ has no runtime dependencies, so there 
is nothing stopping you from downloading the version 6.00 package from 
the unstable repo, and installing it directly. I have done that 
successfully on a couple of Ubuntu systems that I manage, and it 
installed just fine.

The current version of memtest86+ does have some annoying miss-features, 
which I would prefer to see fixed, but it does basically work, and is 
much better than the old version that does not support modern hardware, 
and can emit false error reports.

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David Pottage