Il 29/07/2022 00:05, Chris Hofstaedtler ha scritto:
Package: ftp.debian.org Severity: normal X-Debbugs-Cc: m...@debian.org, fantonifa...@tiscali.it, fziel...@z-51.deDear FTP Masters, please remove memtest86. As stated by the last maintainer in #969192, alternatives exist. Actually it appears memtest86+ and pcmemtest have been merged, and memtest86+ 6.0 will be the pcmemtest code base. Having an old, unmaintained memory tester which, according to bug reports, does not even start anymore helps no one. Lets get rid of this variant. I'll tag this moreinfo in a moment, so everyone interested has enough time to say something about this bug. I'll untag it in a month or so. Best, Chris
Thanks for open this, when I started to work on memtest86+ I taken a look to memtest86 but I thought it was not worth putting in to improve and maintain also that package as it is no longer maintained upstream for a long time and I think it would be time to remove it by now (unless someone has some reason to keep it and wants to maintain it).
memtest86+ v6.00 have beta3 now in experimental and in about a month there will be the final release and after will be uploaded to unstable, when memtest86+ v6 will be in testing I think will be good make pcmemtest as metapackage for transition to memtest86+ (as there are some users using it) and in a subsequent period then remove that too and then have a single maintained "memtest" (memtest86+) on both upstream and in debian with 2 maintainers (me and Felix Zielcke). What do you think?
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