On 2022-10-06 22:11:54, Fabio Fantoni wrote:
> Il 06/10/2022 17:44, Antoine Beaupré ha scritto:
>> Hello Fabio!
>>
>> Below is an excerpt of a discussion that happened in bug #1008263 about
>> removing pcmemtest from Debian, to remove the duplication of work with
>> memtest86+:
>>
>> On 2022-09-09 17:08:34, Felix Zielcke wrote:
>>> I wasn't sure if I should wait until the new memtest86+ gets out of
>>> beta and uploaded to unstable. But yeah, maybe it's better to just file
>>> the RM now
>> I am wondering if you had any plans to upload memtest86+ 6 to unstable
>> already? It looks like it could fix a *lot* of issues that currently
>> affect memtest86, which is basically unusable on modern platforms right
>> now.
>>
>> For example, on my Framework laptop -- which only boots from EFI --
>> memtest86 from testing/unstable just doesn't boot at all. I am just
>> testing the version from experimental and, so far so good, it seems to
>> work fine!
>>
>> Thanks for any update!
>>
> Hi, I was waiting the release of the definitive (stable) version before
> upload to unstable, unfortunately the release scheduled for a month ago
> was delayed, however x86fr said there is a last patch missing that he
> needs to add shortly and then 6.00 will be released
I still think the current beta release is better than what we have in
unstable... But as long as it makes it to bookworm, I'm happy. :)
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