Comment 25 for bug 1630516

Running through on Xenial.

$ sudo apt-get install logrotate/xenial-proposed
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
Selected version '3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1' (Ubuntu:16.04/xenial-proposed [amd64]) for 'logrotate'
The following packages will be upgraded:
  logrotate
1 to upgrade, 0 to newly install, 0 to remove and 22 not to upgrade.
Need to get 37.8 kB of archives.
After this operation, 0 B of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu xenial-proposed/main amd64 logrotate amd64 3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1 [37.8 kB]
Fetched 37.8 kB in 0s (639 kB/s)
(Reading database ... 889765 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to unpack .../logrotate_3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1_amd64.deb ...
Unpacking logrotate (3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1) over (3.8.7-2ubuntu2) ...
Processing triggers for man-db (2.7.5-1) ...
Setting up logrotate (3.8.7-2ubuntu2.16.04.1) ...
$ cd /var/log/
$ sudo touch syslog.2
$ ls -l syslog*
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 193861 Apr 25 15:48 syslog
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 586698 Apr 25 07:35 syslog.1
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 0 Apr 25 15:48 syslog.2
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26955 Apr 24 07:35 syslog.2.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 26695 Apr 23 07:35 syslog.3.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 31307 Apr 22 07:35 syslog.4.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 32909 Apr 21 07:35 syslog.5.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 39182 Apr 20 07:35 syslog.6.gz
-rw-r----- 1 syslog adm 27036 Apr 19 07:35 syslog.7.gz
Either things will fail overnight (well first thing tomorrow morning or all will be well. I shall get back in touch soon.