1 userv (1.2.1~beta2) unstable; urgency=medium
3 Documentation generation changes:
4 * spec: Generate printable file as pdf via docbook.
5 * spec: Correct information about userv's authorship.
6 * spec: Update builtin version number.
7 * overview diagram: Build as pdf, with a sensible page layout.
9 Debian packaging changes:
10 * Switch to dh auto sequencer. Many consequences:
11 - Upstream README is /usr/share/doc/userv/README, not README.upstream.
12 * Control file md5sums are provided.
13 * New changelog symlink for changelog.Debian.gz.
14 * We use the proper Debian debug information scheme.
15 * We use different compiler flags, which will hopefully produce
16 better hardening and better reproducibility.
17 * Build everything from actual sources; don't reuse committed files.
19 Fixes to upstream "make install-docs" target:
20 * Ship docs to /usr/share/doc/userv, not /usr/userv (!)
21 * Ship manpages to /usr/share, not /usr, by default
22 * Install default config files as examples too.
23 * Provide "[un]install-docs" target (not just anomalous "install-doc").
25 Inconsequential code changes:
26 * Suppress some warnings about ignoring stderr write errors.
27 * overlord: Explicitly ignore unwanted value from write.
29 Upstream build system and packaging tidying:
30 * regenerate lexer.c using flex 2.6.4-6.2.
31 * regenerate rautoconf outputs with auatoconf 2.69-11.
33 * Add some missing configure.in quoting (needed by modern autoconf).
34 * "make install": Honour DESTDIR; create bindir and sbindir if needed
35 * "make install": Do not pass -m to install -d; introduce INSTALL_DIR
36 * overview diagram: Override non-reproducible date inserted by fig2dev.
37 * copyright: Add missing dates and names. Simplify notices.
38 * Update my own email address
39 * gitignore: add missing entries, move debian stuff to debian/.
40 * Makefile: Refactoring of installation targets
41 * Makefile: Remove obsolete dist target
45 userv (1.2.1~beta1) unstable; urgency=medium
48 * Do not leak a harmless fd into the service program. Closes: #864876.
49 * spec: Do not claim you can specify numeric service uid. Closes: #989048.
52 * Provide a systemd service file in the source tree, but (for now) do
53 not install it. Re #939573. Service file provided by Matthew Vernon.
54 * debian/compat: Bump to 12 (stretch-backports). Closes: #965858.
55 * autopkgtests: Add some tests to check installation and operation.
56 * debian/rules: Fix cross-building. Closes: #985998. [Helmut Grohne]
58 -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 26 Dec 2021 01:32:33 +0000
60 userv (1.2.0) unstable; urgency=medium
63 * Support `stdin', `stdout' and `stderr' in fd ranges, as promised
64 by the spec. Closes:#813005.
65 * Support `range' operator, as promised by the spec. Closes:#686449.
66 Bug and analysis from Mark Wooding.
67 * Do not ignore errors from readdir. Closes:#827408 [Peter Benie].
68 * Correct docs for errors-push, which takes no filename.
70 * Correct quoting of include-lookup directory. Closes:#837391.
71 (With new directives to somewhat ease backward-compatibility.)
75 * Use `%option nounput' rather than #define YY_NO_UNPUT.
76 Patch from Peter Benie.
77 * Specify #define YY_NO_INPUT, which avoids an unused function warning.
78 Patch from Peter Benie.
79 * Update copyright notices.
80 * Upgrade licence to GPLv3+.
83 * Honour dpkg-buildflags.
84 * Add some newer debian/ droppings to .gitignore.
86 -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 23 Jan 2017 17:17:54 +0000
88 userv (1.1.1) unstable; urgency=low
90 * Include INIT INFO stanza in init script.
91 * Draft support for `status' in init script, currently commented
92 out pending inclusion into policy of firm specification.
93 * Remove spec.ps on make clean.
94 * Remove spec.ps and dh log on debian/rules clean. (Use dh_clean.)
95 (To repro bug: dpkg-buildpackage, debian/rules clean, git-ls-files -o)
96 * Fix up some copyright messages.
98 -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:16:52 +0100
100 userv (1.1.0) unstable; urgency=medium
103 * Do not reject comments and blank lines inside not-being-executed
104 conditional clauses. (Closes: #613862.)
106 Important Debian packaging fix:
107 * Remove /var/run/userv from the .deb.
108 (Along with the change in 1.0.6 this Closes: #630528.)
110 General minor improvements (relevant outside Debian):
111 * Introduce a use of socklen_t to avoid a compiler warning.
112 * Remove spec.html and spec.ps from revision control.
113 * Revision control switched from cvs to git.
114 * Update my email address.
116 Debian packaging minor improvements and bugfixes:
117 * The new version will ensure a rebuild and therefore completely deal
118 with the debiandoc-sgml missing documentation bug. (Closes: #413873.)
119 * Use lintian for dh_fixperms; this ensures that the permissions of
120 /etc/userv in the .deb are 755, not 2755.
121 * Use `command -v' instead of `type' in maintainer scripts.
122 * Do not ignore errors from commands in rules clean target.
123 * Fix FSF address in copyright file.
124 * Remove obsolete local variable section from debian/changelog.
125 * Update Standards-Version. No changes required.
127 -- Ian Jackson <ijackson@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 02 Jun 2012 16:41:09 +0100
129 userv (1.0.6ubuntu1) lucid; urgency=low
131 * Change tetex-bin with texlive and tetex-extra with texlive-latex-extra
132 in Build-Depends for tetex transition. Cherry-picked from Debian,
133 Thanks to Jari Aalto.
135 -- James Westby <james.westby@ubuntu.com> Thu, 15 Apr 2010 12:03:52 +0100
137 userv (1.0.6) unstable; urgency=low
140 * Create /var/run/userv in the init script as well as shipping
141 it in the .deb package.
143 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Wed, 11 Jul 2007 17:54:36 +0100
145 userv (1.0.5) unstable; urgency=low
147 Bugfixes (thanks to report from Nelson Beebe):
148 * Do not call `assert' on expressions whose side-effects we need (!)
149 Thanks to report from Nelson Beebe.
150 * Correct an erroneous assert() argument so that it would actually
151 detect failure of the assertion.
152 * alarm(2) returns unsigned and can never fail.
155 * Reran flex (flex Debian 2.5.31-31).
156 * Use install -g 0 instead of -g root. This is more portable, I hope.
157 * Detect missing vsnprintf and mention URL from Nelson Beebe in err msg.
158 * Remove obsolete `buildship' script from top level directory. We use
159 cvs-buildpackage nowadays.
161 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 8 Apr 2006 13:17:14 +0100
163 userv (1.0.4) unstable; urgency=low
166 * Close client socket fd in spawned cats (avoids some service-side hangs
167 when client terminates). Thanks to report from Simon Tatham.
169 Minor portability fixes:
170 * Missing #include <string.h> and <stdlib.h> } Thanks to report
171 * getgroups returns int, not gid_t (!). } from Peter Benie.
172 * Dummy `check' target in Makefile.in. } Thanks to
173 * Bogus strsignal emulation for broken platforms. } report from
174 * Bogus WCOREDUMP emulation for broken platforms. } Nelson Beebe
176 Packaging improvements (including Debian packaging fixes):
177 * Compress uservd(8) manpage. Closes: #244735.
178 * spec.tex and spec.html are autogenerated: clean and .cvsignore them.
179 * SHELL=/bin/bash in debian/rules; use of install(8). Closes: #263979.
180 * Reran autoconf/autoheader (autoconf Debian 2.13-54).
181 * Updated copyright notices.
183 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Fri, 7 Apr 2006 20:04:29 +0100
185 userv (1.0.3-2) unstable; urgency=low
187 Debian packaging improvements (only):
188 * type -p invoke-rc.d changed to type, in postinst and prerm.
190 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 1 Nov 2003 16:59:38 +0000
192 userv (1.0.3) unstable; urgency=medium
195 * Make require-fd work with reading fds !
196 (Thanks to Ben Harris for the bug report).
197 * Close unwanted pipes in client-side cat subprocesses, to avoid
198 wedging at termination. (Thanks to patchlet from Peter Benie.)
199 * gid_t may be >int, so cast to long when putting in USERV_GIDS
200 (Might conceivably make USERV_GIDS be wrong on some platforms.)
201 * Do not pass char to ctype macros; they can't cope with -ve !
202 * Fix fd modifier, signal, and exit status parsing to be rigourous in
203 their use of strtoul. (Thanks to report from Peter Benie.)
206 * #include <fcntl.h>, not <sys/fcntl.h> (fixes some implicit decls).
207 * Look for gmd5sum. (Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the report.)
208 * install-sh updated to that from autoconf 2.53.
209 * Use fcntl F_{GET,SET}FD with respect for as-yet-uninvented fd flags.
210 (small patch from Ben Harris.)
212 Documentation and help improvements:
213 * userv(1) manpage: fixed broken definitions of fd excl and trunc.
214 (Debian bug report: Closes: #79579.)
215 * Specification's usage notes section improved.
216 * --help and --version behaviour made to conform to GNU standards.
217 * We do ship m4 and flex output now, so say so.
218 * Some groff warnings in userv(1), and source version fixed.
219 * New userv(8) manpage. (Debian: Closes: #33777.)
220 * Update copyright dates everywhere.
222 Debian packaging improvements:
223 * Priority changed to optional as per override file.
224 * Build-Depends: debiandoc-sgml, tetex-bin, tetex-extra. Closes #190615.
225 * init.d reload is noop, restart now called restart. Closes #70783.
226 * /etc/init.d/userv nicer output: colons, `.' printed after done.
227 * Maintainer scripts use invoke-rc.d if it's available.
228 * Maintainer scripts discard stdout from update-rc.d.
229 * No more messing with /usr/doc, use only /usr/share/doc. Closes #91578.
230 * Support unstripped binaries in the .deb, with DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS.
231 * Fixed typo in debian/copyright.
232 * /etc/init.d/userv restart doesn't mind if not already running.
233 * debian/rules clean removes whole spec.html subdirectory.
234 * Ship spec.ps (Closes: #210859)
235 * Lintian override for suid /usr/bin/userv (Closes: #211055)
236 * Standards-Version 3.6.1.
237 * Corrected location of common licenses.
238 * Added -isp to dpkg-gencontrol.
239 (Thanks to Martin Pitt and Bas Zoetekouw's NMUs
240 for many inspirations and one-liners.)
242 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 1 Nov 2003 01:11:59 +0000
244 userv (1.0.1) stable frozen unstable; urgency=high
246 IMPORTANT SECURITY FIX:
247 * fd swapping algorithm would sometimes corrupt security-critical data
248 used to generate the service program's USERV_ environment variables.
249 For details see the 1.0.1 announcement in the userv-announce archives.
251 Portability improvement:
252 * Look for `md5' as well as `md5sum' - installs easier on BSDs.
254 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:06:30 +0100
256 userv (1.0.0) unstable; urgency=low
258 * Manpage userv(1) from Ben Harris. (Debian bug #33777.)
259 * Released out of beta (version number change).
260 * Added a couple of things to .cvsignore.
262 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 6 Mar 2000 18:13:49 +0000
264 userv (0.95.0) unstable; urgency=low
266 * Count \-continued lines properly in error message line numbers.
267 * Fix lexing bugs with "-quoted strings and \-continuation.
268 * Fix interpretation of \n etc. in "-quoted strings.
269 * Fix bug which ignored erroneous read/write after ignore-fd/reject-fd.
271 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 9 Nov 1999 23:26:54 +0000
273 userv (0.65.2) unstable; urgency=high
275 * In client, copy results from getpw* when necessary. This fixes what
276 could be a security problem on some platforms.
277 * Avoid accessing backup, auto-save files, etc, with include-lookup.
278 Everything except a-z 0-9 - _ must now be prefixed by a colon.
279 * Allow \ to continue lines (and do sensible things with whitespace in
280 `message' and `error' directives).
282 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 10 Oct 1999 12:48:47 +0100
284 userv (0.64.1) unstable; urgency=low
286 * New "shutdown" builtin service for terminating uservd.
287 * Spec. document shows subsections in TOC.
289 * setenv emulation using putenv works properly (previously you would get
290 wrong environment variable settings). (Thanks to Ben Harris.)
291 * Makefile bug fixed (tokens.h would sometimes not be rebuilt).
293 * Regenerated formatted documentation (spec.ps, spec.html).
295 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 20 Jun 1999 19:13:42 +0100
297 userv (0.62) unstable; urgency=low
299 * New builtin service `help' lists builtin services.
301 INSTALL improvements:
302 * Document locations of required programs.
303 * Sort-of document debugging version.
305 Portability fixes for:
306 * md5sum with extra `-'.
307 * -lsocket required for socket().
308 * missing `LOG_AUTHPRIV'.
309 * `logname' name clash.
310 * missing setenv() (synthesize using putenv).
311 * various required #include's were omitted.
312 * install rule in Makefile `if ! test ...' changed to `if test ! ...'
314 Build arrangements changed (new GNU coding standards targets etc):
315 * m4 and flex output now shipped.
316 * `dist' target in Makefile.
317 * Manuals in CVS and shipped pre-formatted.
319 * Reran autoconf/autoheader, latest version.
320 * Updated email address to ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk throughout.
322 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 18 Apr 1999 20:08:12 +0100
324 userv (0.60.3) frozen unstable; urgency=medium
326 * Fixed misdequoting of \<newline> in "-quoted strings.
327 * Removed -Werror by default. (Bug#32758, Bug#32747)
329 -- Ian Jackson <ian@chiark.greenend.org.uk> Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:24:33 +0000
331 userv (0.60.2) frozen unstable; urgency=high
333 * Fixed failure to save pathnames in a couple of places in parser.c.
334 Without this, include-directory would often try to open a garbage
335 filename. This could be a security problem in certain cases where
336 user-owned config files were included from sysadmin-defined files,
337 and the sysadmin wants to control how a user provides services.
339 * Fix "-quoted strings, which previously never worked at all.
341 * Fixed spurious failure with `Interrupted system call' on systems
342 where fread can fail due to read giving EINTR (blech!)
344 * Fixed race when fd closed at startup, which could cause
345 `system call failure: kill cat for <fd>: No such process'.
347 * Fixed spurious assertion failure if user's home directory not
349 * Fixed a couple of memory and fd leaks in error exits from
350 include-directory and include-lookup in parser.c.
352 * Debian and `upstream' version integrated; Changelogs merged.
354 * Provided `system.default' file checks /etc/userv/services.d and
355 /etc/userv/default.d; system.override runs /etc/userv/override.d.
357 * Add <string.h> to servexec.c.
358 * Add -D_GNU_SOURCE to CFLAGS in configure.in.
359 * Braces added in client.c to prevent GCC `ambiguous else' warning.
362 * autoconf-generated files included in CVS.
364 * Debian package description mentions use by system admin.
366 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 30 Jan 1999 23:38:17 +0000
369 *** Main changelog file included here - see far down this file for the
370 *** pre-0.60 Debian-specific changes.
373 userv (0.58); urgency=high
375 * Fixed failure to set gid when invoking service !!
376 * Fixed failure to set fd value in et_closereadfd messages from client.
378 * Save filename string in parse_file for error reporting (in case it is
379 overwritten by parsing code).
380 * Fixed obscure race in process.c:getevent (et_closereadfd and hold fds).
381 * `builtin version' service had error message and errno string reserve
384 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:00:22 +0000
386 userv (0.57); urgency=high
388 * Services provided by root work !
389 * uservd can now go into background itself (-daemon option).
391 * spec now has default syslog facility for rcfile messages as `user'.
392 * Better prioritisation of syslog messages.
393 * Startup error messages now go to stderr instead.
394 * SIGTERM and SIGINT now produce a syslog message.
396 * Version number has VEREXT component, settable via make args &c.
397 * New sections in INSTALL about exit statuses and -daemon.
399 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:04:18 +0100
401 userv (0.56); urgency=medium
403 * Server now checks itself every hour to see if its socket has been
404 stolen, and exits if it has.
405 * Client only retries connect(2) on EINTR (and does so silently).
406 * All of even master server's syslog messages have pid.
407 * Don't delete spec.sgml.in in clean targets.
409 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:38:25 +0100
411 userv (0.55.2); urgency=low
413 * Added info about WWW page, mailing lists and bug reporting to README.
415 * clean targets except realclean don't remove spec.html, spec.ps,
416 lexer.[lc], tokens.h, overview.ps. New totalclean target for
417 removing configure and config.h.in.
419 * Added <sys/types.h> and <errno.h> to lexer.l.m4.
420 * <sys/wait.h> instead of <wait.h>; %d instead of %ld for WEXITSTATUS
421 in overlord.c; PIPEMAXLEN etc. #defines include cast to int to avoid
422 problems with sizeof and size_t; EPROTO missing workaround.
423 * Note about SIG_IGN and `function declaration isn't a prototype' added
424 to INSTALL file in new PROBLEMS section.
426 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 5 Oct 1997 17:55:32 +0100
428 userv (0.55.1); urgency=low
430 * README file now shipped.
431 * Added this Changelog, and configure gets version number from it.
433 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:58:32 +0100
439 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sun, 21 Sep 1997 23:52:50 +0100
442 *** Old main changelog file ends here.
443 *** Now come pre-0.59 Debian-specific changes.
446 userv (0.58-1.2) unstable; urgency=low
448 * Non maintainer upload.
449 Fix for this error on the Arm.
450 cc1: warnings being treated as errors
451 client.c: In function callvalueoption':
452 client.c:747: warning: suggest explicit braces to avoid ambiguous else'
453 Braces inserted, to join the if statements together
455 -- Turbo Fredriksson <turbo@debian.org> Thu, 20 Aug 1998 06:17:43 -0400
457 userv (0.58-1.1) frozen unstable; urgency=low
459 * Non maintainer upload
460 * Finally compiled against libc6
461 * To Brian White: Please either confirm this upload to go into frozen or
462 remove userv from frozen.
463 * Added external declaration for strsignal() to overlord.c and client.c
465 -- Martin Schulze <joey@finlandia.infodrom.north.de> Sat, 18 Jul 1998 10:48:11 +0200
467 userv (0.58-1) unstable; urgency=low
469 * Upgraded to new upstream version; major security fix, error handling
472 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Thu, 29 Jan 1998 00:03:52 +0000
474 userv (0.57-1) unstable; urgency=high
476 * Upgraded to new upstream version; fixed bug with root-provided
478 * Uses new -daemon option in init.d script.
479 * Sets VEREXT during build to set version number.
481 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Tue, 14 Oct 1997 02:22:22 +0100
483 userv (0.56-1) experimental; urgency=low
485 * Upgraded to new upstream version.
487 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Sat, 11 Oct 1997 14:13:22 +0100
489 userv (0.55.1-1) experimental; urgency=low
491 * Initial Debian release.
493 -- Ian Jackson <ian@davenant.greenend.org.uk> Mon, 22 Sep 1997 01:08:23 +0100