[BPO] memtest86+/6.10-4 to Jammy

[Fantu]

[Impact]

 * Version 6.00 add efi support, useful for some recent computer that have only uefi and not legacy bios. Also have iso image working booting from usb.

[Scope]

 * List the Ubuntu release you will backport from, and the specific package version: 6.10-4 from Lunar

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

[Other Info]

Changelog entries since current Jammy version:

memtest86+ (6.10-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update README.Debian with renamed 32bit files.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:16:22 +0100

memtest86+ (6.10-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Rename 32bit files (x32 -> ia32) to match EFI Specification. Thanks
    to Jonas Stalder for the hint.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:43:09 +0100

memtest86+ (6.10-2) unstable; urgency=medium

  * d/patches/fix_64bit_build.patch: Add patch to fix FTBFS on i386.
  * Bump Standards-Version to 4.6.2.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Sat, 04 Feb 2023 07:16:14 +0100

memtest86+ (6.10-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  * New upstream release.
  * Also suggest grub-efi. (Closes: #1029133)

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Feb 2023 18:20:01 +0100

memtest86+ (6.01-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Felix Zielcke ]
  * Fix file names of EFI images in d/README.Debian. Thanks Michael
    Prokop for the hint. (Closes: #1023638)

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream version 6.01

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Fri, 13 Jan 2023 14:26:12 +0100

memtest86+ (6.00-1) unstable; urgency=medium

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream version
  * d/control: remove memtest86 from suggests
  * refresh d/patches

  [ Felix Zielcke ]
  * Upload to unstable.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Mon, 24 Oct 2022 20:01:48 +0200

memtest86+ (6.00~beta3-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Felix Zielcke ]
  * Disable hurd for now.

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream beta version

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Wed, 20 Jul 2022 16:25:41 +0200

memtest86+ (6.00~beta2-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream beta version.
  * Update console parameter in d/grub and README.Debian.
  * Bumped Standards-Version to 4.6.1, no needed changes.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Fri, 03 Jun 2022 12:15:59 +0200

memtest86+ (6.00~beta1-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  * New upstream beta version.
  * d/watch: use new git and use uversionmangle for support
    pre-release versions.
  * Try to add hurd and kfreebsd support with new version building only
    32 or 64 bit instead of both like on linux with gcc-multilib

 -- Fabio Fantoni <email address hidden> Thu, 05 May 2022 19:35:33 +0200

memtest86+ (6.0~20220422-1) experimental; urgency=medium

  [ Fabio Fantoni ]
  * New upstream snapshot from new official git. (Closes: #943752)
    Git commit: 2a7631daab811fc8ca12c2eb5f0dcc974fe2fc8b
  * d/postrm: don't run update-grub if in a container
  * d/control: add Felix Zielcke to uploaders
  * add upstream metadata

  [ Felix Zielcke ]
  * Various packaging changes based on my works on pcmemtest.
  * Update d/copyright.
  * Remove completely lilo support.
  * Booting ISO Image from USB should now work. (Closes: #1004126)
  * Remove all old patches.
  * d/patches/reproducible-builds.patch: New patch to make builds fully
    reproducible.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Fri, 22 Apr 2022 20:22:38 +0200

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Ryo Onodera (ryoqun)]

hi, I'd also like to see some progress here. FYI, memtest86+ 6.0 is officially released: https://www.phoronix.com/news/memtest86-6.0-Released

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

@fantonifabio can you prepare (and test) a backported package for this? And upload as well, if you have upload rights.

The backports team does not usually prepare backports, we only review/accept uploads (though occasionally we upload a backported package that someone has prepared).

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

@ddstreet thanks for reply
I don't have upload right in ubuntu, I prepared a branch in salsa git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/memtest86plus/-/commits/ubuntu/jammy-backports
and a build in ppa https://launchpad.net/~fantonifabio/+archive/ubuntu/freeipmi-backports
I already tested 6.01-1 package (done with manual build) on my ubuntu notebook 2 week ago

[Mattia Rizzolo (mapreri)]

@Fantu: please see https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UbuntuBackports#Finding_a_Sponsor for the details regarding sponsorship.

I'm subscribing ~ubuntu-sponsors for now and see if somebody picks it up, or you might want to check with your usual ubuntu sponsor, if you have one.

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

6.10-2 is now in Lunar, debian unstable/testing and also bullseye-backports
updated the branch in salsa git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/memtest86plus/-/commits/ubuntu/jammy-backports
and a build in ppa https://launchpad.net/~fantonifabio/+archive/ubuntu/freeipmi-backports

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

I sponsored this to jammy; this is now waiting on a backports team member (other than me) to review.

For the reviewer, note that the latest version in lunar is 6.10-4, so this backport is slightly behind; but this backport request was opened when 6.10-2 was the latest version in lunar. Since the changes between 6.10-2 and 6.10-4 are very minor, and since lack of sponsorship was the cause of the delay (no fault of the backporter), I decided to sponsor as-is (we can always do a follow-on backport with a newer lunar version). However I'll also email the backport team ML as we might want to clarify this situation in the backport docs, specifically, if we have a hard requirement for the latest version in the 'backport from' release, or if we will accept backporting an older-than-latest version (especially in the case of delays in sponsoring and/or reviewing).

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

> For the reviewer

and of course it's up to the reviewer to decide if it's ok to accept this version backport or if this really should use the latest lunar version

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

@ddstreet thanks for sponsoring the upload, is there any news related to it?
today another "bug" requesting the memtest86+ 6 to Jammy was opened: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/memtest86+/+bug/2012270
seems a thing enough requested

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

> @ddstreet thanks for sponsoring the upload, is there any news related to it?

just waiting for one of the other backports team members to review/accept it, @teward @mapreri either of you able to review it?

[Thomas Ward (teward)]

The only reason I'm going to reject this is that there's changes in -3 and -4 in Lunar now which update to match EFI spec.

Can you do a reupload / sponsor of -4 from Lunar to backports here for Jammy?

Attached are the -3 and -4 changelog from Lunar / Debian (because it was synced)

memtest86+ (6.10-4) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Update README.Debian with renamed 32bit files.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 11:16:22 +0100

memtest86+ (6.10-3) unstable; urgency=medium

  * Rename 32bit files (x32 -> ia32) to match EFI Specification. Thanks
    to Jonas Stalder for the hint.

 -- Felix Zielcke <email address hidden> Sat, 11 Feb 2023 10:43:09 +0100

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

@teward yeah, i did notice that but (as i said in comment 7) the change does seem pretty minor and it's not really Fantu's fault that new versions went in upstream while he was waiting for a sponsor. But yeah, it would be better to use the latest version.

Fantu can you put a backported 6.10-4 build in your ppa and test it? I can sponsor it from your ppa once it's ready.

Thanks!

[Thomas Ward (teward)]

@ddstreet While I agree in principle, when something changes to adhere to EFI spec, that's a pretty significant change. And saves us having to do the approval *twice*. I don't disagree this isn't Fantu's fault, but it shouldn't be much more difficult for them to get -4 into their PPA and then us sponsor it up to -backports here (with our blessing and no additional review needed).

That is, if Fantu can put a backported 6.10-4 into the PPA and then you sponsor it to -backports ddstreet you can Just Do It with the approval.

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

> That is, if Fantu can put a backported 6.10-4 into the PPA and then you sponsor it to -backports ddstreet you can Just Do It with the approval.

excellent that sounds like a plan, thanks teward!

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

@ddstreet @teward thanks for your help
when I'll have time one of next days or weekend I'll rebase the jammy-backports branch, update the ppa and test it and update first message here

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

@ddstreet @teward
updated git branch: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/memtest86plus/-/commits/ubuntu/jammy-backports
a build in ppa: https://launchpad.net/~fantonifabio/+archive/ubuntu/freeipmi-backports
the first message and description
and did a fast test of the package

[Dan Streetman (ddstreet)]

i sponsored this and, per comment 13, also approved it.

[Fantu (fantonifabio)]

@ddstreet thanks