bzr dependency not installed

[Timmie]

BZR is not installed and iniated when installing etckeeper:

sudo apt-get install etckeeper

etckeeper init not ran as bzr is not installed

[Timmie (timmie)]

cd /etc/

sudo etckeeper init
/etc/etckeeper/init.d/40vcs-init: 12: /etc/etckeeper/init.d/40vcs-init: bzr: not found

This on a linuxmint system.

[Robie Basak (racb)]

Thank you for your report.

etckeeper can use bzr, git, mercurial or darcs, and requires only one of these to be installed. If you already have git installed (for example), then the dependency is fulfilled and bzr will not be installed.

On Ubuntu etckeeper currently defaults to bzr, so in this case you will need to configure etckeeper to use your installed alternative, or install bzr manually if you wish to use it.

This behaviour is by design, so I'm marking this bug as Invalid (although Ubuntu defaults to bzr instead of git; this should probably be changed back to git at some point in a future release). If you still think there's a bug here, please describe what you expect to happen in Ubuntu instead, explain why, and reopen.