Bug#1003277: RFS: memtest86+/5.31b-1 [QA] -- thorough real-mode memory tester

[Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio@tiscali.it>]

Package: sponsorship-requests
Severity: normal

Dear mentors,

I am looking for a sponsor for my package "memtest86+":

 * Package name    : memtest86+
   Version         : 5.31b-1
   Upstream Author : Samuel Demeulemeester <memtest@memtest.org>
 * URL             : http://www.memtest.org/
 * License         : GPL-2
 * Vcs             : https://salsa.debian.org/debian/memtest86plus
   Section         : misc

It builds those binary packages:

  memtest86+ - thorough real-mode memory tester

To access further information about this package, please visit the 
following URL:

  https://mentors.debian.net/package/memtest86+/

Alternatively, one can download the package with dget using this command:

  dget -x 
https://mentors.debian.net/debian/pool/main/m/memtest86+/memtest86+_5.31b-1.dsc

New upstream beta version (with relevant additions and fixes), also got 
fixes from coreboot, fedora, suse, gentoo, ubuntu, made further 
additions and improvements to packaging, readme and grub2 configuration, 
I also did some tests on PCs in these weeks and is generally better than 
the current version on stable/testing/unstable. The experimental 
multiboot is still bugged (on my tests) after the patch from coreboot 
(for different problem) but it was also before (on 
stable/testing/unstable packages), and as being disabled by default I 
don't think I should delay a possible upload on experimental yet given 
the numerous fixes that this build includes.


Changes since the last upload:

 memtest86+ (5.31b-1) experimental; urgency=medium
 .
   [ Fabio Fantoni ]
   * QA upload.
   * New upstream version 5.31b (Closes: #989030, #977217)
   * Merge from ubuntu:
     - Use elf version by default that should works on major of system.
     - Drop the multiboot image from the GRUB menu for now, since it's
       experimental and has known problems detecting all memory on some
       systems at the moment.
     - Support localization of GRUB menu entries.
     - Don't present in GRUB menu on EFI systems, since it won't work.
       (Closes: #695246)
     - Close FD 3 when invoking update-grub.
   * Warn that don't support EFI instead of exit silently (LP: 1863940)
   * Don't add grub2 entries if GRUB_DISABLE_MEMTEST=true is present
     in /etc/default/grub (LP: #420967)
   * Make possible disable serial with GRUB_MEMTEST_DISABLE_SERIAL,
     enable multiboot with GRUB_MEMTEST_ENABLE_MULTIBOOT and add
     custom serial parameters with GRUB_MEMTEST_SERIAL_PARAMS
     (Closes: #898636, #612371)
   * Specify on grub2 menu entries when elf and bin are used
   * d/control: Remove hwtools and kernel-patch-badram from suggests.
   * d/copyright: add Upstream-Name, Upstream-Contact and Source fields
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 4.6.0
   * d/patches:
     - update multiboot patch from coreboot patch based on the one of
       Vladimir Serbinenko and refreshed for 5.31b (Closes: #568176)
     - refresh memtest86+-5.01-O0.patch
     - disable memtest86+-5.01-array-size.patch and gcc-5 as seems not
       needed with newer upstream version
     - refresh serial-console-fix.patch
     - add test-random-cflags.patch: use CFLAGS with random.o for
       maintain flags like -fno-stack-protector
     - add fix-gcc8-freeze-crash.patch: runtime fix for gcc>=8
       freeze/crash
     - add discard-note_gnu_property.patch: discards the
       ".note.gnu.property" section that causes crash in some cases
 .
   [ Jérémy Bobbio ]
   * Make the package build reproducibly:
     - Add a patch to make ISO image reproducible.
     - Set the build date to the latest debian/changelog entry in
       debian/rules. (Closes: #783515)

Regards,
--
  Fabio Fantoni

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