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.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.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.
-- David Pottage
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