[Pkg-aide-maintainers] Bug#868749: aide-common: aideinit fails with syntax errors when /etc/debian_version contains spaces

[Marc Haber]

tags #868749 confirmed pending
thanks

I made some changes to 10_aide_distribution, taking in your suggestions.
Thanks!

Greetings
Marc

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 11:04:54AM +0200, Raphaël Hertzog wrote:
> From: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>
> Subject: Bug#868749: aide-common: aideinit fails with syntax errors when
>  /etc/debian_version contains spaces
> To: Debian Bug Tracking System <submit at bugs.debian.org>
> Reply-To: Raphaël Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org>, 868749 at bugs.debian.org
> Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2017 11:04:54 +0200
> X-Mailer: reportbug 7.1.7
> 
> Package: aide-common
> Version: 0.16-1
> Severity: normal
> User: devel at kali.org
> Usertags: origin-kali
> 
> In Kali, we used to have "Kali Linux Rolling" in /etc/debian_version and
> this broke the syntax of the generated aide.conf.
> 
> root at kali:~# aideinit 
> Running aide --init...
> 77:syntax error:Rolling
> 77:Error while reading configuration:Rolling
> Configuration error
> AIDE --init return code 17
> 
> 
> You should fix /etc/aide/aide.conf.d/10_aide_distribution to replace
> spaces with underscores in the content read from /etc/debian_version.
> 
> This will make it more resilient for Debian derivatives that are putting
> long release names in that file.
> 
> Cheers,
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