etckeeper init is not executed on initial install

[Nobuto Murata]

etckeeper on xenial does not kick initial commit on its fresh install. It seems ubuntu patch has debian/etckeeper.postinst over debian/postinst which has a logic to kick `etckeeper init`.

$ ls -1 etckeeper-1.18.1*/debian/*postinst
etckeeper-1.18.1/debian/postinst
etckeeper-1.18.1ubuntu2/debian/etckeeper.postinst
etckeeper-1.18.1ubuntu2/debian/postinst

[etckeeper-1.18.1ubuntu2/debian/postinst]
     80 if [ "$2" = "" ] && [ -e "/etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf" ]; then
     81 # Fresh install.
     82 . /etc/etckeeper/etckeeper.conf || true
     83 if [ -n "$VCS" ] && [ -x "`which $VCS 2>/dev/null`" ]; then
     84 if etckeeper init; then
     85 if ! etckeeper commit "Initial commit"; then
     86 echo "etckeeper commit failed; run it by hand" >&2
     87 fi
     88 else
     89 echo "etckeeper init failed; run it by hand" >&2
     90 fi
     91 else
     92 echo "etckeeper init not ran as $VCS is not installed" >&2
     93 fi
     94 fi

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 16.04
Package: etckeeper 1.18.1ubuntu2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 4.3.0-5.16-generic 4.3.3
Uname: Linux 4.3.0-5-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.19.3-0ubuntu2
Architecture: amd64
CurrentDesktop: Unity
Date: Mon Jan 11 06:20:50 2016
EcryptfsInUse: Yes
InstallationDate: Installed on 2016-01-09 (1 days ago)
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 16.04 LTS "Xenial Xerus" - Alpha amd64 (20160108)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: etckeeper
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)

[Nobuto Murata (nobuto)]

Attached debdiff fixes the issue by properly merging ubuntu's preinst and postinst with the original ones.

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thanks, that makes sense, I've sponsored it now

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package etckeeper - 1.18.1ubuntu3

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etckeeper (1.18.1ubuntu3) xenial; urgency=medium

  * properly merge preinst and postinst to fix initial commit on
    fresh install, LP: #1532615

 -- Nobuto Murata <email address hidden> Mon, 11 Jan 2016 07:02:16 +0900