[Bug 1659902] Re: Please sync logrotate from Debian testing

[Hans Joachim Desserud]

Thanks for reporting.

Note that the latest version of this package in Ubuntu, 3.8.7-2ubuntu2,
contains some Ubuntu-specific patches (based on the version number).
Could you comment a bit on whether these patches have been included
upstream/in Debian and can be dropped or whether they are still required
so the package needs to be merged? (See also
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SyncRequestProcess for more information on
package syncs)

** Tags added: upgrade-software-version

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Title:
  Please sync logrotate from Debian testing

Status in logrotate package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  logrotate 3.8.7 contains multiple bugs, including:

  1) error creating output file [e.g.] /var/log/syslog.1.gz: File exists
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=734688
  I encounter this bug on many machines, with many different logfiles, both system logs and application logs.

  2) segfault with certain configuration/path combos
  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=818793
  The submitter mentions a specific set of conditions, but they are not limited to these alone, as confirmed in additional reports, and in my own testing.

  
  Changelog (appears very incomplete):

  logrotate (3.11.0-0.1) unstable; urgency=low

    * Non-maintainer upload
    * New upstream version 3.11.0  Closes: #734688
    * Refresh patch queue, and fix several regressions
    * Update watch file. Closes: #844578, also Homepage information
    * Specify bsd-mailx as default mailx provider. Closes: #849743

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