filter based on content properties is not working

We have a use case where the replication agent's enabled flag should not be overwritten with every deployment.

Referring to the comment here https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCRVLT-120?focusedCommentId=16907459&page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels%3Acomment-tabpanel#comment-16907459 and the documentation for Property Filtering on https://jackrabbit.apache.org/filevault/filter.html , I am trying to implement this

<filter root="/etc/replication/agents.author/some-data-exporter">
 <include pattern="/etc/replication/agents.author/some-data-exporter/.*"/>
 <exclude pattern=".*/enabled" matchProperties="true"/>
 </filter>

But when I deploy the package using this filter definition, the exclude pattern is not applied. Ideally this should include everything  below the specified path and just ignore the property enabled in the existing content. But this is not happening as the whole content is replaced.

We are using this in AEM with the version 3.2.8(org.apache.jackrabbit.vault)

the Node structure is:

+/etc/replication/agents.author/some-data-exporter
+ jcr:content/

• enabled="true"
• property1="some value"

• property2="some other value"