Am Freitag, dem 29.07.2022 um 00:05 +0200 schrieb Chris Hofstaedtler: > Package: ftp.debian.org > Severity: normal > X-Debbugs-Cc: m...@debian.org, fantonifa...@tiscali.it, > fziel...@z-51.de > > Dear 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
AFAIK even the new memtest86+ 6.0, should run fine on old systems. I'm not sure pcmemtest supports them. But as soon as the pcmemtest based memtest86+ has been uploaded to unstable, I'll file a removal request for pcmemtest. So I don't see either a reason to still keep the very old memtest86 in Debian. Regards, Felix
