[ITP] etckeeper 1.18.17-1

[Christian Franke]

I would like to contribute etckeeper.

https://etckeeper.branchable.com/
https://repology.org/project/etckeeper/versions

etckeeper-1.18.17-1.hint:
category: Utils
requires: bash coreutils grep sed
sdesc: "Store /etc in git or mercurial"
ldesc: "Etckeeper is a tool to let /etc be stored in git or
mercurial.  It hooks into Cygwin Setup to automatically commit changes
made to /etc during package upgrades.  It tracks file metadata
(permissions, owner, group) that version control systems do not
normally support."

Package for review:
wget -r -nH --cut-dirs=2 \
https://chrfranke.de/cygwin/noarch/etckeeper/etckeeper-1.18.17-1.hint \
https://chrfranke.de/cygwin/noarch/etckeeper/etckeeper-1.18.17-1-src.hint \
https://chrfranke.de/cygwin/noarch/etckeeper/etckeeper-1.18.17-1-src.tar.xz 
\
https://chrfranke.de/cygwin/noarch/etckeeper/etckeeper-1.18.17-1.tar.xz \
https://chrfranke.de/cygwin/noarch/etckeeper/etckeeper-1.18.17-1.sha256

Tested with git. Only a few tests were done with hg.

Baazar is not fully supported yet as the pre-commit hook Python module 
is not included. The "bzr" command now fails on Cygwin as it still 
requires python2.7. Debian/Ubuntu moved to brz (breeze).

The current Cygwin Setup cannot automatically run the hook for 
'etckeeper pre-install'. A related patch is here:
https://sourceware.org/pipermail/cygwin-apps/2022-June/042076.html

As a workaround for now, 'etckeeper pre-install' could be run manually 
before starting setup. If not run, the 'etckeeper post-install' hook 
then also commits any pending changes done before setup, the "Package 
changes:" list in the log message is always empty and "Packages with 
configuration changes:" will not appear. The remaining functionality is 
not affected.

-- 
Regards,
Christian