Comment 6 for bug 1966800

The autopkgtest regressions were resolved by retries.

I have verified this fix on focal using the test plan above:

nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ apt-cache policy systemd
systemd:
  Installed: 245.4-4ubuntu3.18
  Candidate: 245.4-4ubuntu3.18
  Version table:
 *** 245.4-4ubuntu3.18 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-proposed/main amd64 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     245.4-4ubuntu3.17 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-updates/main amd64 Packages
     245.4-4ubuntu3.15 500
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal-security/main amd64 Packages
     245.4-4ubuntu3 500
        500 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu focal/main amd64 Packages

nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/lp-1966800-reproducer.timer
[Unit]
Description=LP 1966800 reproducer

[Timer]
OnCalendar=Sun *-*-* 01:00:00
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target

nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ cat /etc/systemd/system/lp-1966800-reproducer.service
[Service]
ExecStart=/usr/bin/echo "LP 1966800 reproducer"

nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo systemctl daemon-reload
nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo timedatectl set-ntp false
nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo timedatectl set-time "2021-03-21"
nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo timedatectl set-timezone Europe/Dublin
nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo systemctl start lp-1966800-reproducer.timer
nr@clean-focal-amd64:~$ sudo systemctl status
● clean-focal-amd64
    State: running
     Jobs: 0 queued
   Failed: 0 units
    Since: Thu 2022-09-08 18:08:29 IST; 1 years 5 months left
   CGroup: /
           ├─user.slice
           │ └─user-1000.slice
           │ ├─user@1000.service …
           │ │ ├─gsd-xsettings.service
           │ │ │ └─1565 /usr/libexec/gsd-xsettings
           │ │ ├─gvfs-goa-volume-monitor.service
           │ │ │ └─1216 /usr/libexec/gvfs-goa-volume-monitor
           │ │ ├─gsd-power.service
           │ │ │ └─1531 /usr/libexec/gsd-power
           │ │ ├─xdg-permission-store.service
           │ │ │ └─1444 /usr/libexec/xdg-permission-store
           │ │ ├─gsd-sound.service
           │ │ │ └─1552 /usr/libexec/gsd-sound
           │ │ ├─gsd-rfkill.service
           │ │ │ └─1535 /usr/libexec/gsd-rfkill
           │ │ ├─gsd-usb-protection.service
           │ │ │ └─1555 /usr/libexec/gsd-usb-protection
           │ │ ├─gsd-print-notifications.service
           │ │ │ ├─1534 /usr/libexec/gsd-print-notifications
           │ │ │ └─1609 /usr/libexec/gsd-printer
           │ │ ├─evolution-calendar-factory.service
           │ │ │ └─1465 /usr/libexec/evolution-calendar-factory
           │ │ ├─gsd-a11y-settings.service
           │ │ │ └─1517 /usr/libexec/gsd-a11y-settings
           │ │ ├─gsd-wwan.service
           │ │ │ └─1563 /usr/libexec/gsd-wwan
           │ │ ├─pulseaudio.service
           │ │ │ └─1162 /usr/bin/pulseaudio --daemonize=no --log-target=journal
           │ │ ├─gsd-screensaver-proxy.service
           │ │ │ └─1537 /usr/libexec/gsd-screensaver-proxy
           │ │ ├─gsd-media-keys.service