logrotate on 20.04 is ancient and misses important bugfixes

[lonix]

Ubuntu focal/20.04 has logrotate version 3.14.0 which is ancient. There have been multiple important bugfixes since then (https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate/releases).

Ubuntu hirsute/21.04 does include the latest version, but that isn't an LTS version, so is not an option for many of us.

Please consider adding the latest version to the 20.04 apt repository?

(I'm aware of workarounds such as installing manually, building from source, etc. But like most users I prefer to rely on the apt repositories.)

Thanks!!!

[Sebastien Bacher (seb128)]

Thank you for your bug report, usually SRU include selected fixes rather than updating to new version. Do you have issues that you care more specifically that are affecting focal and resolved in newer versions? Ideally a SRU would need to start by having a testcase explaining how to trigger the problem so it's possible to confirm the issue and verify the fix

[lonix (lonix1)]

Frankly that went over my head, so unsure how to respond. :)

I used a VM to test (manually updating by installing a deb) and all issues disappeared - that was my "test". I suppose that's not good enough according to your comment.

Perhaps let's just close this issue? I'll need to wait for ubuntu 22.

(BTW: when you work on a new ubuntu version, do you just upgrade to the latest package version, or do you follow the same approach you explained above? i.e. you never just upgrade to "latest".)