diff -u clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/common_functions clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/common_functions
--- clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/common_functions
+++ clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/common_functions
@@ -147,7 +147,7 @@
         value=`grep ^$variable $CLAMAVCONF | head -n1 | sed -e s/$variable\ //`
         ;;
         *)
-        value=`grep ^$variable $CLAMAVCONF | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'`
+        value=`grep "^$variable[[:space:]]" $CLAMAVCONF | head -n1 | awk '{print $2}'`
         ;;
       esac
       if [ -z "$value" ]; then 
diff -u clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/changelog clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/changelog
--- clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/changelog
+++ clamav-0.97.8+dfsg/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+clamav (0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1.12.04.2) precise-proposed; urgency=low
+
+  * debian/common_functions
+    - Fix slurp_config() that is sometimes not discriminative
+    enough which leads to invalid configuration files (LP: #799623)
+
+ -- Louis Bouchard <louis.bouchard@ubuntu.com>  Mon, 10 Feb 2014 17:54:42 +0100
+
 clamav (0.97.8+dfsg-1ubuntu1.12.04.1) precise-security; urgency=low
 
   [ Seth Arnold ]