Source: logrotate Section: admin Priority: important Maintainer: Christian Göttsche Build-Depends: acl [linux-any] , debhelper-compat (= 13), libacl1-dev [linux-any], libpopt-dev, libselinux1-dev [linux-any] Vcs-Browser: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logrotate Vcs-Git: https://salsa.debian.org/debian/logrotate.git Homepage: https://github.com/logrotate/logrotate Standards-Version: 4.6.1 Rules-Requires-Root: no Package: logrotate Architecture: any Multi-Arch: foreign Depends: cron | anacron | cron-daemon | systemd-sysv, ${misc:Depends}, ${shlibs:Depends} Suggests: bsd-mailx | mailx Description: Log rotation utility The logrotate utility is designed to simplify the administration of log files on a system which generates a lot of log files. Logrotate allows for the automatic rotation compression, removal and mailing of log files. Logrotate can be set to handle a log file daily, weekly, monthly or when the log file gets to a certain size. Normally, logrotate runs as a daily cron job.