Package: logrotate
Version: 3.7.1-2
Severity: minor

Hi,

logrotate with the dateext extension happily rotates logs that have
already been rotated, leading to wonderful file names like
ella-20040509.gz-20060215-20060216-20060217-20060218-20060219

This happens as soon as a wildcard (/var/log/foo/* { dateext...}) is
found in the configuration.

Logrotate should exclude files matching the mask of a file name
_generated_ by logrotate from rotation to allow wildcards to be used.

Greetings
Marc

-- Package-specific info:
Contents of /etc/logrotate.d
total 7
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  79 Apr  7  2005 aptitude
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 114 Dec  4  2002 cron-apt
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 111 Sep 26 09:04 dpkg
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 173 Jun 20  2004 exim4-base
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 280 Jan  1  2002 ippl
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root  79 Jan 30  2002 lvm-common
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 291 Feb 11 10:55 sysklogd


-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Shell:  /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash
Kernel: Linux 2.6.15.4-zgsrv
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=de_DE (charmap=ISO-8859-1)

Versions of packages logrotate depends on:
ii  anacron                       2.3-11     a cron-like program that doesn't g
ii  base-passwd                   3.5.11     Debian base system master password
ii  cron                          3.0pl1-92  management of regular background p
ii  libc6                         2.3.6-1    GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii  libpopt0                      1.7-5      lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  libselinux1                   1.28-4     SELinux shared libraries

Versions of packages logrotate recommends:
ii  mailx            1:8.1.2-0.20050715cvs-1 A simple mail user agent

-- no debconf information


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