Comment 14 for bug 1402657

With a fresh install of etckeeper package from utopic-proposed, autocommit happens successfully. However upgrading etckeeper package from utopic to utopic-proposed does not recover executable permission. It's still missing exec permission. Probably because it's a conffile and hashsum is the same with or without executable permission.

This SRU fixes fresh install indeed, but I will attach "take2" patches to make sure upgrade users properly saved.