[Bug 661024] [NEW] [SRU] etckeeper fail to work when installed during installation

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Binary package hint: etckeeper

TEST CASE:
I just tested to install maverick here at the University of Oslo, where we have customized the installation to install a few extra packages.  One of the packages is etckeeper, which is installed very early in the installation process (in post-base-installer),
to get a record of every change in /etc/.

This worked just fine in lucid, but in maverick this breaks the installer.  The reason is that bzr, the default VCS for etckeeper in Ubuntu, now refuses to commit changes before a name and email address has been configured.  This used to work, but
now fail.

A fix would be for etckeeper to run bzr whoami 'Enoch Root
<root at hostname>' or something similar to get the configuration to show
up in ~root/.bazaar/bazaar.conf when initializing the repository.
Another fix would be for bzr to accept "anonymous" commits like it did
in Lucid.

Regression potential:
This change is tested in natty, so I think potential for regression is almost 0.

course of action for maverick:
Apply changes already applied in natty package.

Thanks!

** Affects: etckeeper (Ubuntu)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Thierry Carrez (ttx)
         Status: Fix Released

** Affects: etckeeper (Ubuntu Maverick)
     Importance: Medium
     Assignee: Angel Abad (angelabad)
         Status: Confirmed

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[SRU] etckeeper fail to work when installed during installation
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/661024
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