[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#411823: aide: "line 342: CHANGES: unbound variable" when reporting only on changes

[Marc Haber]

On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:33:00AM +0100, Tim Stoop wrote:
> I tried to apply this patch to the cron for aide 0.13.1-4, but I got  
> the following message:
> 
> patching file aide
> Reversed (or previously applied) patch detected!  Assume -R? [n] n
> Apply anyway? [n] n
> Skipping patch.
> 5 out of 5 hunks ignored -- saving rejects to file aide.rej
> 
> Also, the patch you sent tried to patch aide.conf.d/31_aide_apt.
>

Yes, I sent the complete patch between 0.13.1-4 and my current
development version. Was easier to obtain ;)

> (Btw, this means that aide 0.13.1-4 doesn't have a working cron job,  
> which kinda makes it unusable.)

I have to disagree here, the bug only hit when you want silent reports.

> Could you put a "# $Id$" in the cron script, so it's easier to check  
> which version it is?

I hate that idea as it blows up diffs with irrelevant stuff. aide's
development takes place in a public svn.

I have just uploaded 0.13.1-5 which supposedly fixes this issue.

Greetings
Marc

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