Bug#230963: ITP: memtest86+ -- A thorough real-mode memory tester
On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 03:26:04PM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Tue, 03 Feb 2004, Yann Dirson wrote:
> > This is an update to memtest86 3.0, with a number of patches available from
> > various sources, due to memtest86 itself not having shown a release since a
> > long time.
>
> Why don't we just switch our memtest86 package to this fork, since the other
> one is stale?
Simple matter of safety - since memtest86+ is, technically speaking, a fork,
and a quite recent one, it may still happen that the original development
resumes - although it's been a _long_ time and a fair number of mails I sent
upstream without a sign that there's someone reading Chris Brady's mail.
If memtest86+ proves to be stable enough, and gets maintained, in the
future, then we'll see.
BTW, for now, memtest86+ does not build out of the box on sid, I'll have to
investigate.
Regards,
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