Package: logrotate Version: 3.8.7-2 Severity: important Hi,
After upgrading from 3.8.1-4 to 3.8.7-1 (and -2) the argument passed to the postrotate script is the base logfile name, i.e. without the extension. This is a distinct change from the behaviour in the old version. I use this to run some analysis on the previous day's mail log, and I was wondering why I didn't get any data anymore after upgrading the system to jessie. I can't find any documentation about this change, so I'm wondering whether it's intentional or not. For me it makes it difficult to process the old log file: I now have to glob the base name and find the newest one, which is silly as logrotate knows what the name is (I use dateext to prevent having to transfer all logfiles again every day for the backup, so it's not as simple as just tacking on a ".0"). See also an earlier bug report, #519432, where we discussed basically the same thing :) I marked this bug important as it's an undocumented change in behaviour which can cause problems. thanks, Paul
