userv (1.2.1) unstable; urgency=medium
* Declare this to be version 1.2.1. No code changes.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 04 Feb 2025 20:15:48 +0000
userv (1.2.1~beta5) unstable; urgency=medium
* d/control: Add `Rules-Requires-Root: binary-targets`.
Fixes FTBFS with new dpkg-buildpackage. Closes: #1092417.
[Report from Lucas Nussbaum, verification by Ben Harris]
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 12 Jan 2025 20:55:07 +0000
userv (1.2.1~beta4) unstable; urgency=medium
* debian/control: Re-add missing build-dependency on fonts-dejavu.
Fixes FTBFS, this time for sure! See also #1002919.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 01 Jan 2022 01:16:34 +0000
userv (1.2.1~beta3) unstable; urgency=medium
* debian/control: Add missing build-dependency on flex.
Fixes FTBFS. Report from Aurelien Jarno. Closes: #1002914.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Fri, 31 Dec 2021 22:24:40 +0000
userv (1.2.1~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
Documentation generation changes:
* spec: Generate printable file as pdf via docbook.
* spec: Correct information about userv's authorship.
* spec: Update builtin version number.
* overview diagram: Build as pdf, with a sensible page layout.
Debian packaging changes:
* Switch to dh auto sequencer. Many consequences:
- Upstream README is /usr/share/doc/userv/README, not README.upstream.
* Control file md5sums are provided.
* New changelog symlink for changelog.Debian.gz.
* We use the proper Debian debug information scheme.
* We use different compiler flags, which will hopefully produce
better hardening and better reproducibility.
* debian: Use debhelper to generate maint scripts (daemon start/stop).
* Add misisng build-dependency on "transfig" (previously masked by
our TeX requirements).
* Build everything from actual sources; don't reuse committed files.
* init script: Source /lib/lsb/init-functions.
* debian/control: Fix debhelper build-depends version.
* debian/copyright: Mention /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-3.
* debian/control: Bump Standards-Version (no changes needed).
Fixes to upstream "make install-docs" target:
* Ship docs to /usr/share/doc/userv, not /usr/userv (!)
* Ship manpages to /usr/share, not /usr, by default.
* Install default config files as examples too.
* Provide "[un]install-docs" target (not just anomalous "install-doc").
Inconsequential code changes:
* Suppress some warnings about ignoring stderr write errors.
* overlord: Explicitly ignore unwanted value from write.
Upstream build system and packaging tidying:
* regenerate lexer.c using flex 2.6.4-6.2.
* regenerate rautoconf outputs with auatoconf 2.69-11.
* Add autogen.sh.
* Add some missing configure.in quoting (needed by modern autoconf).
* "make install": Honour DESTDIR; create bindir and sbindir if needed.
* "make install": Do not pass -m to install -d; introduce INSTALL_DIR.
* overview diagram: Override non-reproducible date inserted by fig2dev.
* copyright: Add missing dates and names. Simplify notices.
* Update my own email address.
* changelog: Add "Old Changelog:" note to help Debian's parsers.
* gitignore: add missing entries, move debian stuff to debian/.
* Makefile: Refactoring of installation targets.
* Makefile: Remove obsolete dist target.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Wed, 29 Dec 2021 19:32:19 +0000
userv (1.2.1~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
Bugfixes:
* Do not leak a harmless fd into the service program. Closes: #864876.
* spec: Do not claim you can specify numeric service uid. Closes: #989048.
Packaging:
* Provide a systemd service file in the source tree, but (for now) do
not install it. Re #939573. Service file provided by Matthew Vernon.
* debian/compat: Bump to 12 (stretch-backports). Closes: #965858.
* autopkgtests: Add some tests to check installation and operation.
* debian/rules: Fix cross-building. Closes: #985998. [Helmut Grohne]
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 01:32:33 +0000
userv (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
Bugfixes:
* Support `stdin', `stdout' and `stderr' in fd ranges, as promised
by the spec. Closes:#813005.
* Support `range' operator, as promised by the spec. Closes:#686449.
Bug and analysis from Mark Wooding.
* Do not ignore errors from readdir. Closes:#827408 [Peter Benie].
* Correct docs for errors-push, which takes no filename.
Closes:#775852.
* Correct quoting of include-lookup directory. Closes:#837391.
(With new directives to somewhat ease backward-compatibility.)
Packaging etc.
* Honour XCFLAGS.
* Use `%option nounput' rather than #define YY_NO_UNPUT.
Patch from Peter Benie.
* Specify #define YY_NO_INPUT, which avoids an unused function warning.
Patch from Peter Benie.
* Update copyright notices.
* Upgrade licence to GPLv3+.
Debian packaging:
* Honour dpkg-buildflags.
* Add some newer debian/ droppings to .gitignore.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:17:54 +0000
userv (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
* Include INIT INFO stanza in init script.
* Draft support for `status' in init script, currently commented
out pending inclusion into policy of firm specification.
* Remove spec.ps on make clean.
* Remove spec.ps and dh log on debian/rules clean. (Use dh_clean.)
(To repro bug: dpkg-buildpackage, debian/rules clean, git-ls-files -o)
* Fix up some copyright messages.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:16:52 +0100
userv (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
Bugfix:
* Do not reject comments and blank lines inside not-being-executed
conditional clauses. (Closes: #613862.)
Important Debian packaging fix:
* Remove /var/run/userv from the .deb.
(Along with the change in 1.0.6 this Closes: #630528.)
General minor improvements (relevant outside Debian):
* Introduce a use of socklen_t to avoid a compiler warning.
* Remove spec.html and spec.ps from revision control.
* Revision control switched from cvs to git.
* Update my email address.
Debian packaging minor improvements and bugfixes:
* The new version will ensure a rebuild and therefore completely deal
with the debiandoc-sgml missing documentation bug. (Closes: #413873.)
* Use lintian for dh_fixperms; this ensures that the permissions of
/etc/userv in the .deb are 755, not 2755.
* Use `command -v' instead of `type' in maintainer scripts.
* Do not ignore errors from commands in rules clean target.
* Fix FSF address in copyright file.
* Remove obsolete local variable section from debian/changelog.
* Update Standards-Version. No changes required.
-- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:41:09 +0100
userv (1.0.6ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
* Change tetex-bin with texlive and tetex-extra with texlive-latex-extra
in Build-Depends for tetex transition. Cherry-picked from Debian,
Thanks to Jari Aalto.
-- James Westby <james.westby@ubuntu.com> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:03:52 +0100
userv (1.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
Packaging fix:
* Create /var/run/userv in the init script as well as shipping
it in the .deb package.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:54:36 +0100
userv (1.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
Bugfixes (thanks to report from Nelson Beebe):
* Do not call `assert' on expressions whose side-effects we need (!)
Thanks to report from Nelson Beebe.
* Correct an erroneous assert() argument so that it would actually
detect failure of the assertion.
* alarm(2) returns unsigned and can never fail.
Packaging changes:
* Reran flex (flex Debian 2.5.31-31).
* Use install -g 0 instead of -g root. This is more portable, I hope.
* Detect missing vsnprintf and mention URL from Nelson Beebe in err msg.
* Remove obsolete `buildship' script from top level directory. We use
cvs-buildpackage nowadays.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:17:14 +0100
userv (1.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
Bugfixes:
* Close client socket fd in spawned cats (avoids some service-side hangs
when client terminates). Thanks to report from Simon Tatham.
Minor portability fixes:
* Missing #include <string.h> and <stdlib.h> } Thanks to report
* getgroups returns int, not gid_t (!). } from Peter Benie.
* Dummy `check' target in Makefile.in. } Thanks to
* Bogus strsignal emulation for broken platforms. } report from
* Bogus WCOREDUMP emulation for broken platforms. } Nelson Beebe
Packaging improvements (including Debian packaging fixes):
* Compress uservd(8) manpage. Closes: #244735.
* spec.tex and spec.html are autogenerated: clean and .cvsignore them.
* SHELL=/bin/bash in debian/rules; use of install(8). Closes: #263979.
* Reran autoconf/autoheader (autoconf Debian 2.13-54).
* Updated copyright notices.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:04:29 +0100
userv (1.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
Debian packaging improvements (only):
* type -p invoke-rc.d changed to type, in postinst and prerm.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:59:38 +0000
userv (1.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
Bugfixes:
* Make require-fd work with reading fds !
(Thanks to Ben Harris for the bug report).
* Close unwanted pipes in client-side cat subprocesses, to avoid
wedging at termination. (Thanks to patchlet from Peter Benie.)
* gid_t may be >int, so cast to long when putting in USERV_GIDS
(Might conceivably make USERV_GIDS be wrong on some platforms.)
* Do not pass char to ctype macros; they can't cope with -ve !
* Fix fd modifier, signal, and exit status parsing to be rigourous in
their use of strtoul. (Thanks to report from Peter Benie.)
Portability fixes:
* #include <fcntl.h>, not <sys/fcntl.h> (fixes some implicit decls).
* Look for gmd5sum. (Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the report.)
* install-sh updated to that from autoconf 2.53.
* Use fcntl F_{GET,SET}FD with respect for as-yet-uninvented fd flags.
(small patch from Ben Harris.)
Documentation and help improvements:
* userv(1) manpage: fixed broken definitions of fd excl and trunc.
(Debian bug report: Closes: #79579.)
* Specification's usage notes section improved.
* --help and --version behaviour made to conform to GNU standards.
* We do ship m4 and flex output now, so say so.
* Some groff warnings in userv(1), and source version fixed.
* New userv(8) manpage. (Debian: Closes: #33777.)
* Update copyright dates everywhere.
Debian packaging improvements:
* Priority changed to optional as per override file.
* Build-Depends: debiandoc-sgml, tetex-bin, tetex-extra. Closes #190615.
* init.d reload is noop, restart now called restart. Closes #70783.
* /etc/init.d/userv nicer output: colons, `.' printed after done.
* Maintainer scripts use invoke-rc.d if it's available.
* Maintainer scripts discard stdout from update-rc.d.
* No more messing with /usr/doc, use only /usr/share/doc. Closes #91578.
* Support unstripped binaries in the .deb, with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
* Fixed typo in debian/copyright.
* /etc/init.d/userv restart doesn't mind if not already running.
* debian/rules clean removes whole spec.html subdirectory.
* Ship spec.ps (Closes: #210859)
* Lintian override for suid /usr/bin/userv (Closes: #211055)
* Standards-Version 3.6.1.
* Corrected location of common licenses.
* Added -isp to dpkg-gencontrol.
(Thanks to Martin Pitt and Bas Zoetekouw's NMUs
for many inspirations and one-liners.)
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 1 Nov 2003 01:11:59 +0000
userv (1.0.1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high
IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX:
* fd swapping algorithm would sometimes corrupt security-critical data
used to generate the service program's USERV_ environment variables.
For details see the 1.0.1 announcement in the userv-announce archives.
Portability improvement:
* Look for `md5' as well as `md5sum' - installs easier on BSDs.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:06:30 +0100
userv (1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Manpage userv(1) from Ben Harris. (Debian bug #33777.)
* Released out of beta (version number change).
* Added a couple of things to .cvsignore.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:13:49 +0000
userv (0.95.0) unstable; urgency=low
* Count \-continued lines properly in error message line numbers.
* Fix lexing bugs with "-quoted strings and \-continuation.
* Fix interpretation of \n etc. in "-quoted strings.
* Fix bug which ignored erroneous read/write after ignore-fd/reject-fd.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:26:54 +0000
userv (0.65.2) unstable; urgency=high
* In client, copy results from getpw* when necessary. This fixes what
could be a security problem on some platforms.
* Avoid accessing backup, auto-save files, etc, with include-lookup.
Everything except a-z 0-9 - _ must now be prefixed by a colon.
* Allow \ to continue lines (and do sensible things with whitespace in
`message' and `error' directives).
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:48:47 +0100
userv (0.64.1) unstable; urgency=low
* New "shutdown" builtin service for terminating uservd.
* Spec. document shows subsections in TOC.
* setenv emulation using putenv works properly (previously you would get
wrong environment variable settings). (Thanks to Ben Harris.)
* Makefile bug fixed (tokens.h would sometimes not be rebuilt).
* Regenerated formatted documentation (spec.ps, spec.html).
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:13:42 +0100
userv (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
* New builtin service `help' lists builtin services.
INSTALL improvements:
* Document locations of required programs.
* Sort-of document debugging version.
Portability fixes for:
* md5sum with extra `-'.
* -lsocket required for socket().
* missing `LOG_AUTHPRIV'.
* `logname' name clash.
* missing setenv() (synthesize using putenv).
* various required #include's were omitted.
* install rule in Makefile `if ! test ...' changed to `if test ! ...'
Build arrangements changed (new GNU coding standards targets etc):
* m4 and flex output now shipped.
* `dist' target in Makefile.
* Manuals in CVS and shipped pre-formatted.
* Reran autoconf/autoheader, latest version.
* Updated email address to ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk throughout.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:08:12 +0100
userv (0.60.3) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
* Fixed misdequoting of \<newline> in "-quoted strings.
* Removed -Werror by default. (Bug#32758, Bug#32747)
-- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:24:33 +0000
userv (0.60.2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
* Fixed failure to save pathnames in a couple of places in parser.c.
Without this, include-directory would often try to open a garbage
filename. This could be a security problem in certain cases where
user-owned config files were included from sysadmin-defined files,
and the sysadmin wants to control how a user provides services.
* Fix "-quoted strings, which previously never worked at all.
* Fixed spurious failure with `Interrupted system call' on systems
where fread can fail due to read giving EINTR (blech!)
* Fixed race when fd closed at startup, which could cause
`system call failure: kill cat for <fd>: No such process'.
* Fixed spurious assertion failure if user's home directory not
accessible.
* Fixed a couple of memory and fd leaks in error exits from
include-directory and include-lookup in parser.c.
* Debian and `upstream' version integrated; Changelogs merged.
* Provided `system.default' file checks /etc/userv/services.d and
/etc/userv/default.d; system.override runs /etc/userv/override.d.
* Add <string.h> to servexec.c.
* Add -D_GNU_SOURCE to CFLAGS in configure.in.
* Braces added in client.c to prevent GCC `ambiguous else' warning.
* Reran autoconf.
* autoconf-generated files included in CVS.
* Debian package description mentions use by system admin.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:38:17 +0000
Old Changelog:
*** Main changelog file included here - see far down this file for the
*** pre-0.60 Debian-specific changes.
userv (0.58); urgency=high
* Fixed failure to set gid when invoking service !!
* Fixed failure to set fd value in et_closereadfd messages from client.
* Save filename string in parse_file for error reporting (in case it is
overwritten by parsing code).
* Fixed obscure race in process.c:getevent (et_closereadfd and hold fds).
* `builtin version' service had error message and errno string reserve
values exchanged.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:22 +0000
userv (0.57); urgency=high
* Services provided by root work !
* uservd can now go into background itself (-daemon option).
* spec now has default syslog facility for rcfile messages as `user'.
* Better prioritisation of syslog messages.
* Startup error messages now go to stderr instead.
* SIGTERM and SIGINT now produce a syslog message.
* Version number has VEREXT component, settable via make args &c.
* New sections in INSTALL about exit statuses and -daemon.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:04:18 +0100
userv (0.56); urgency=medium
* Server now checks itself every hour to see if its socket has been
stolen, and exits if it has.
* Client only retries connect(2) on EINTR (and does so silently).
* All of even master server's syslog messages have pid.
* Don't delete spec.sgml.in in clean targets.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:38:25 +0100
userv (0.55.2); urgency=low
* Added info about WWW page, mailing lists and bug reporting to README.
* clean targets except realclean don't remove spec.html, spec.ps,
lexer.[lc], tokens.h, overview.ps. New totalclean target for
removing configure and config.h.in.
* Added <sys/types.h> and <errno.h> to lexer.l.m4.
* <sys/wait.h> instead of <wait.h>; %d instead of %ld for WEXITSTATUS
in overlord.c; PIPEMAXLEN etc. #defines include cast to int to avoid
problems with sizeof and size_t; EPROTO missing workaround.
* Note about SIG_IGN and `function declaration isn't a prototype' added
to INSTALL file in new PROBLEMS section.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:55:32 +0100
userv (0.55.1); urgency=low
* README file now shipped.
* Added this Changelog, and configure gets version number from it.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:58:32 +0100
userv (0.55)
* Initial release
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:52:50 +0100
*** Old main changelog file ends here.
*** Now come pre-0.59 Debian-specific changes.
userv (0.58-1.2) unstable; urgency=low
* Non maintainer upload.
Fix for this error on the Arm.
cc1: warnings being treated as errors
client.c: In function callvalueoption':
client.c:747: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous else'
Braces inserted, to join the if statements together
-- Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:17:43 -0400
userv (0.58-1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
* Non maintainer upload
* Finally compiled against libc6
* To Brian White: Please either confirm this upload to go into frozen or
remove userv from frozen.
* Added external declaration for strsignal() to overlord.c and client.c
-- Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:48:11 +0200
userv (0.58-1) unstable; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new upstream version; major security fix, error handling
fixes.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:03:52 +0000
userv (0.57-1) unstable; urgency=high
* Upgraded to new upstream version; fixed bug with root-provided
services.
* Uses new -daemon option in init.d script.
* Sets VEREXT during build to set version number.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:22:22 +0100
userv (0.56-1) experimental; urgency=low
* Upgraded to new upstream version.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:13:22 +0100
userv (0.55.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
* Initial Debian release.
-- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:08:23 +0100