diff --git a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/main.yml b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/main.yml
index 7d33126bf..c266001b2 100644
--- a/roles/calibre-web/tasks/main.yml
+++ b/roles/calibre-web/tasks/main.yml
@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@
- name: Allow ImageMagick to read PDFs
lineinfile:
path: /etc/ImageMagick-6/policy.xml
- regexp: '^'
- line: ''
+ regexp: ''
+ line: ' '
state: present
when: is_debuntu