[Bug 1962614] Re: [BPO] memtest86+/5.31b+dfsg-4 from Jammy to Focal

Fantu 1962614 at bugs.launchpad.net
Wed Mar 9 20:06:19 UTC 2022


thanks for replies, unfortunately there are many patches that fix freezes, crashes, other major bugs and recent hardware support. also upstream at the moment does not have git (it will only have it from the next version barring unforeseen events) and this makes it even more complicated and time-consuming to extract parts from the changes between 5.01 and 5.31b. Not to mention the time to document everything, test etc...
I don't have much time and I'm already too stressed at work. unfortunately I don't want to risk anything worse than what I had done with SRU of a few small nemo fixes that I had already tested and used for a long time in production and I wanted to do an official build but this took a long time to reach :(
sorry for my bad english

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Title:
  [BPO] memtest86+/5.31b+dfsg-4  from Jammy to Focal

Status in memtest86+ package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  [Impact]

   * Version in Focal is broken (freeze or crash) on major of cases
  based on what I saw

  [Scope]

   * List the Ubuntu release you will backport from, and the specific
  package version: 5.31b+dfsg-4  from Jammy

   * List the Ubuntu release(s) you will backport to: Focal

  [Other Info]

  For now salsa git (where is hosted debian packaging) is down: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/memtest86plus
  when will return available I'll prepare a focal-backports branch

   
  Changelog entries since current Focal version:

  memtest86+ (5.31b+dfsg-4) unstable; urgency=medium

    [ Fabio Fantoni ]
    * New maintainer (Closes: #969191)
    * another changes to makeiso.sh to make the build reproducible:
      - add -uid and -gid to 0 to xorriso options
      - replaced "echo -e" with printf
    * d/postinst: don't run update-grub if in a container
    * d/control: remove mention of lpia arch

    [ Debian Janitor ]
    * Trim trailing whitespace.
    * Use secure URI in Homepage field.
    * Bump debhelper from old 12 to 13.
    * Update renamed lintian tag names in lintian overrides.

   -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio at tiscali.it> Sun, 06 Feb 2022 21:35:43
  +0100

  memtest86+ (5.31b+dfsg-3) experimental; urgency=medium

    * QA upload.
    * d/control: replace genisoimage build-dep with xorriso
    * removed d/patches/make-iso-reproducible
    * d/patches/use-xorriso-instead-cdrkit.patch:
      cdrkit is not supported anymore, use xorriso instead
      also aded the modification of date part to make the build
      reproducible (Closes: #982240)
    * use SOURCE_DATE_EPOCH instead of add BUILD_DATE in d/rules
    * d/rules:
      - use dh_auto_build instead of make
      - restore a change for kfreebsd

   -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio at tiscali.it> Sat, 22 Jan 2022 18:20:23
  +0100

  memtest86+ (5.31b+dfsg-2) experimental; urgency=medium

    * QA upload.
    * d/patches/dmi-more-ram-slots-and-buffer-overflow-fix.patch:
      prevent crash for buffer overflow in DMI memory and increase
      supported memory devices from 16 to 128 (Closes: #1003906)
      Thanks to Lionel Debroux

   -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio at tiscali.it> Tue, 18 Jan 2022 18:30:04
  +0100

  memtest86+ (5.31b+dfsg-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)

   -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio at tiscali.it> Sun, 09 Jan 2022 21:41:58
  +0100

  memtest86+ (5.01-4) unstable; urgency=medium

    [ Fabio Fantoni ]
    * QA upload.
    * switch package to use dh and bump compat to 12
      (Closes: #999226, #965720)
    * update debian/watch

    [ Yann Dirson ]
    * Add Vcs-* fields for salsa repo.
    * Add Dutch translation (Closes: #765362)
    * Add Brazilian Portuguese translation (Closes: #787752)
    * Remove usage of obsolete dh_buildinfo

   -- Fabio Fantoni <fantonifabio at tiscali.it> Sun, 19 Dec 2021 13:56:27
  +0100

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