Re: request to backport memtest86

> 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.
You right, for example I and other users have installed memtest86+ in 
stable debian and ubuntu versions since I started to work on it's 
package and was in debian experimental. Anyway major of users don't know 
it and backports is useful in that case.


> 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. 
Memtest86+ since 6.00 is on github 
(https://github.com/memtest86plus/memtest86plus/), bugs and feature 
requests can be reported easy and fast, is also more easy contribute on 
it for anyone who wants creating a pull request.


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> David Pottage
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