Comment 12 for bug 791839

I tested etckeeper from -proposed and it fixes the issue for me.

ubuntu@ch02b12:~$ apt-cache policy etckeeper
etckeeper:
  Installed: 0.56ubuntu2.1
  Candidate: 0.56ubuntu2.1
  Version table:
 *** 0.56ubuntu2.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     0.56ubuntu2 0
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ oneiric/main amd64 Packages