I can't apply the patch in this bug report to etckeeper upstream because there is no debian/ directory upstream.
Note that the etckeeper cron job is *also* not something shipped in etckeeper these days, since it's part of the debian/ directory. Anyway, the patch to use dh_installsystemd --no-enable seems like it would be fine to me. Alternatively, the cron job could check if the timer is enabled, and avoid redundantly running etckeeper then. if systemctl is-enabled etckeeper.timer --quiet; then exit 0; fi Probably best would be to both disable the timer by default, and make that change to the cron job. That would make the debian package behave as documented by etckeeper.conf. -- see shy jo
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