Source: etckeeper Section: admin Priority: optional Build-Depends: debhelper (>= 5), dpkg-dev (>= 1.9.0) Maintainer: Joey Hess Standards-Version: 3.7.2 Vcs-Git: git://git.kitenet.net/etckeeper Homepage: http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/etckeeper/ Package: etckeeper Architecture: all Section: admin Depends: metastore, git-core (>= 1:1.5.3.4) | mercurial, ${misc:Depends} Description: store /etc in git or mercurial The etckeeper program is a tool to let /etc be stored in a git or mercurial repository. It hooks into APT to automatically commit changes made to /etc during package upgrades. It uses 'metastore' to track file metadata that version control systems do not normally support, but that is important for /etc, such as the permissions of /etc/shadow. It's quite modular and configurable, while also being simple to use if you understand the basics of working with version control.