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Debian Changelog memtest86 (4.0a-0.1)

2012

memtest86 (4.0a-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload, with maintainer's permission.
   * New upstream version (Closes: #622395):
     - Support machines with >= 4GB of RAM.  Closes: #522525, #572347, #582610,
       #647756.
     - Fix build with -O3.  Closes: #389258.

 -- Aurelien Jarno <aurel32@debian.org>  Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:49:59 +0100

2011

memtest86 (3.5-2.3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Fix pending l10n issues. Debconf translations:
     - Vietnamese (Clytie Siddall).  Closes: #574435
     - Spanish (Ricardo Fraile).  Closes: #575646
     - Brazilian Portuguese (Fábio Antonio Ferreira).  Closes: #598637
     - Danish (Joe Hansen).  Closes: #621876
     - Slovak (Slavko).  Closes: #622097
     - Dutch; (Jeroen Schot).  Closes: #622755
   * Fix grammar error in package description ("allows _to_ <infinitive>")

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Tue, 25 Oct 2011 02:13:27 +0200

2010

memtest86 (3.5-2.2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Fix pending l10n issues. Debconf translations:
     - Russian (Yuri Kozlov).  Closes: #562628
     - Portuguese (Américo Monteiro).  Closes: #563017
     - German (Thomas Mueller).  Closes: #563287
     - Japanese (Hideki Yamane (Debian-JP)).  Closes: #564290
     - French (Christian Perrier).  Closes: #564429
     - Swedish (Martin Bagge).  Closes: #564469
     - Czech (Michal Simunek).  Closes: #573192
     - Italian (Vincenzo Campanella).  Closes: #573826

 -- Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>  Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:24:50 +0100

2009

memtest86 (3.5-2.1) unstable; urgency=low

   * Non-maintainer upload.
   * Replace manual propt with debconf (Closes: #553291).
   * Compute the grub entry (either 'linux' or 'linux16') depending on
     whether we find the old or new grub lib file, to support upgrades
     from lenny
   * Fix "please source grub-mkconfig_lib instead of deprecated update-
     grub_lib in /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86", also via the above mechanism
     (Closes: #523114)
   * Update suggests to a recent version of grub2
   * Add a lintian override for statically-linked-binary (which is expected)

 -- Iustin Pop <iusty@k1024.org>  Sun, 06 Dec 2009 12:17:12 +0100

memtest86 (3.5-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Sync'd packaging with memtest86+ 2.11-3.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sun, 01 Mar 2009 17:14:17 +0100

memtest86 (3.5-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Add Homepage in control file.
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.8.0.
   * Sync'd package with memtest86+ 2.11-2:
     * Added hurd-i386 as architecture (Closes: #482898).
     * Fixed finding boot image in grub script for newer grub.
     * Run update-grub2 from postrm only if /boot/grub/grub.cfg is present.
     * Use better idiom for safely calling "make clean".
     * Install elf image for use with kexec and such.
     * Depend on ${misc:Depends}
     * Update make-memtest86-boot-floppy (Closes: #504834).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Mon, 09 Feb 2009 23:14:16 +0100

2008

memtest86 (3.4-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Call $(AS) with --32 (Hopefully closes: #462003).
   * Call update-grub2, not update-grub, in postinst, and also call it in
     postrm (Closes: #460079).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:06:26 +0100

memtest86 (3.4-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Updated debian/watch for new site layout (Closes: #450068).
   * Applied patch from Hiroyuki Yamamoto to run update-grub if available
     (Closes: #457636).
   * Install /etc/grub.d/20_memtest86 from Robert Millan, suggests grub2
     (Closes: #422356).
   * Sync with memtest86+ packaging:
     * support for kfreebsd-*
     * removed bashisms in postinst

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 02 Jan 2008 22:25:43 +0100

2007

memtest86 (3.3-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Re-applied fixes from 3.2-1.1 NMU, which I completely missed (Goswin
     von Brederlow):
     * Use CFLAGS instead of CCFLAGS to influence default rule for random.o.
     * Use $(CFLAGS) for reloc.o to avoid __i686.... symbol (Closes: 286708).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:01:25 +0200

memtest86 (3.3-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #418939).
   * Updated debian/watch for new website layout.
   * In non-interactive mode, don't ask the user whether to run lilo on
     update (Holger Mense - Closes: #383635).
   * Fixed typo in extended description (Adrian Knoth - Closes: #377727).
   * Reference memtester instead of sysutils in Suggests and extended
     description (Benjamin Mesing - Closes: #372570).
   * Rework extended description some more: memtest86+ is not any more
     "more actively maintained upstream", and probably noone cares about
     the old history of this package and memmxtest.
   * Sync packaging with memtest86+-1.70:
     * added note about assumed fs layout in grub conf example.
     * avoid non-portable "read -p" in postinst.
     * avoid non-portable "-o" in test(1) call in postinst.
     * use dh-buildinfo.
   * Remove build-dependency on gcc-3.2, build with current gcc.
   * Switch to debhelper v5 (no change).
   * Updated FSF address in debian/copyright.
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.7.2 (no change).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sun, 15 Apr 2007 17:23:13 +0200

2004

memtest86 (3.2-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (includes many improvements from memtest86+
     1.30).
   * Added amd64 to the list of supported architectures, at least until
     they can install the otherwise identical i386 package (Closes:
     #280507).
   * Build with gcc-3.2, since it does not build with current 3.3.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Mon, 15 Nov 2004 21:51:01 +0100

memtest86 (3.1a-5) unstable; urgency=low

   * Clarified refs to memtest86+ and memmxtest in extended description
     (Closes: #276779).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sat, 16 Oct 2004 16:41:00 +0200

memtest86 (3.1a-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * The "sync with memtest86+ 1.26-2" release.
   * Regarding make-memtest86+-boot-floppy:
     - posixified call to "read".
     - added mtools to suggested packages, and notice early when the
       package is missing.
     - changed message about grub package, and versionned the suggests
       field, so people know they need a recent version of it.
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.6.1, no change.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Thu, 14 Oct 2004 00:07:34 +0200

memtest86 (3.1a-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed make-memtest86-boot-floppy to use /lib/grub instead of old
     /usr/lib/grub (see #261883).
   * Added grub to the list of suggested packages.  Mentionned the script
     in the description.
   * Include manpage by Thomas Schmidt for make-memtest86-boot-floppy
     (Closes: #263708).
   * Added debian/watch file.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sat, 7 Aug 2004 01:28:35 +0200

memtest86 (3.1a-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Removed now-useless build-dep on gcc-2.95 (Closes: #249877).
   * Mentionned make-memtest86-boot-floppy in README.Debian (Closes: #227833).
   * Moved it to /usr/bin/.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Tue, 25 May 2004 15:45:50 +0200

memtest86 (3.1a-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release.
   * Now builds with default compiler (Closes: #216916).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sun, 21 Mar 2004 15:39:11 +0100

memtest86 (3.1-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #238403).
   * Updated make-memtest86-boot-floppy from memtest86+_1.11-2 (don't require
     to be root any more).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 17 Mar 2004 01:53:45 +0100

memtest86 (3.0-7) unstable; urgency=low

   * Sync make-memtest86-boot-floppy with memtest86+ 1.00-3:
     * Fixed make-memtest86+-boot-floppy to correctly select the devault
       image as /dev/fd0.
     * Fixed make-memtest86+-boot-floppy usage summary to advertise expected
       syntax.
   * Suggest memtest86+, and advertize it in the package description.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 4 Feb 2004 18:07:11 +0100

memtest86 (3.0-6) unstable; urgency=low

   * Improved make-memtest86-boot-floppy supporting generation of floppy
     image, from memtest86+_1.00-2.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 4 Feb 2004 15:07:52 +0100

2003

memtest86 (3.0-5) UNRELEASED; urgency=low

   * Ship contributed make-memtest86-boot-floppy from Peter Loje
     <pl@2m.dk>, slightly modified so that a normal user could eventually
     run it, but that needs more work.
   * Use debian/compat.
   * Added missing paragraph from website to README (Closes: #204675).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 29 Nov 2003 15:06:01 +0100

memtest86 (3.0-4) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed typo in README file (Closes: #69401).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sun, 16 Nov 2003 17:17:22 +0100

memtest86 (3.0-3) unstable; urgency=low

   * Force the use of gcc 2.95 since 3.x appear to cause problems (Closes:
     #192415).
   * Removed now-useless build-dep on bin86, since gas is now used.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Thu, 29 May 2003 23:30:57 +0200

memtest86 (3.0-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Rebuilt with current toolchain.
   * Removed redundnt and conflicting decl for v in various .c files
     (Closes: #190687).
   * Removed trailing dot from short desc (lintian).
   * Be sure to install memtest86.bin non-executable (lintian).
   * Bumped Standards-Version to 3.5.9 (no change).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Fri, 25 Apr 2003 09:51:36 +0200

2002

memtest86 (3.0-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #148420).

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 29 May 2002 23:54:22 +0200

memtest86 (2.9-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release, including bugfixes for testing more than 2GB,
     and changes to the way it looks for memory to be tested.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sat, 9 Mar 2002 15:50:43 +0100

memtest86 (2.8a-2) unstable; urgency=low

   * Fixed typo in description (Closes: #125126).
   * Added sample grub menu entry (Closes: #127399).
   * Upgraded standards-version to 3.5.6 - no change.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Wed, 30 Jan 2002 22:14:28 +0100

2001

memtest86 (2.8a-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release - serial console is disabled by default now, it
     made testing sooo sllooow.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Sat, 24 Nov 2001 15:32:32 +0100

memtest86 (2.7-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * New upstream release (Closes: #110541).
   * Suggest sysutils, not memtest (Closes: #102244).
   * Offer in postinst to run lilo.  Interactive, but then postinst of lilo
     and of kernel-image are - we need a global solution anyway.
     Closes: #109833.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Mon, 3 Sep 2001 23:13:32 +0200

memtest86 (2.6-1) unstable; urgency=low

   * First release to be packaged out of the hwtools package.
   * Install as /boot/memtest86.bin.
   * Added sample lilo.conf entry as example.

 -- Yann Dirson <dirson@debian.org>  Thu, 21 Jun 2001 01:19:05 +0200