Describe DebianChecklist here. 

   1 # Enable log compression with date postfix'd extension
   2 cat /etc/logrotate.conf | sed "s/#compress/compress/" > /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
   3 echo "dateext" >> /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp
   4 mv /etc/logrotate.conf.tmp /etc/logrotate.conf