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

Wed Jun 1 16:55:19 UTC 2022

** Also affects: memtest86+ (Ubuntu Focal)
   Importance: Undecided
       Status: New

** Changed in: memtest86+ (Ubuntu)
       Status: Confirmed => Invalid

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

Status in memtest86+ package in Ubuntu:
  Invalid
Status in memtest86+ source package in Focal:
  New

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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