diff --git a/logrotate-mess_err.dif b/logrotate-mess_err.dif
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..a143242
--- /dev/null
+++ b/logrotate-mess_err.dif
@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+--- logrotate.c
++++ logrotate.c
+@@ -898,7 +898,7 @@
+ 		now.tm_mon + 1, now.tm_mday, fileext);
+ 	sprintf(destFile, "%s%s", rotNames->finalName, compext);
+ 	if (!stat(destFile, &fst_buf)) {
+-	    message(MESS_DEBUG,
++	    message(MESS_ERROR,
+ 		    "destination %s already exists, skipping rotation\n",
+ 		    rotNames->firstRotated);
+ 	    hasErrors = 1;
diff --git a/logrotate.changes b/logrotate.changes
index fe8812d..ae9aa03 100644
--- a/logrotate.changes
+++ b/logrotate.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Thu Jan 31 14:08:47 CET 2008 - ro@suse.de
+
+- log error if target file already exists
+  (upgrade from MESS_DEBUG to MESS_ERROR) 
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Wed Oct 31 18:01:58 CET 2007 - ro@suse.de
 
diff --git a/logrotate.spec b/logrotate.spec
index 0c3036e..49aacea 100644
--- a/logrotate.spec
+++ b/logrotate.spec
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 #
 # spec file for package logrotate (Version 3.7.5)
 #
-# Copyright (c) 2007 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
+# Copyright (c) 2008 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Nuernberg, Germany.
 # This file and all modifications and additions to the pristine
 # package are under the same license as the package itself.
 #
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ Name:           logrotate
 BuildRequires:  popt-devel
 Summary:        Rotate, Compress, Remove, and Mail System Log Files
 Version:        3.7.5
-Release:        12
+Release:        28
 License:        GPL v2 or later
 Group:          System/Base
 Source:         ftp://people.redhat.com/sopwith/logrotate-%{version}.tar.bz2
@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ Patch:          logrotate-suse.dif
 Patch1:         logrotate-conf.dif
 Patch2:         logrotate-autoext.dif
 Patch3:         logrotate-addextension.dif
+Patch4:         logrotate-mess_err.dif
 Patch11:        logrotate-3.7.5-errorHandling.patch
 Patch12:        logrotate-3.7.5-shred.patch
 Patch13:        logrotate-3.7.5-cfengine.patch
@@ -53,6 +54,7 @@ Authors:
 %patch1
 %patch2
 %patch3
+%patch4
 %patch11 -p1
 %patch12 -p1
 %patch13 -p1
@@ -89,142 +91,146 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 /etc/cron.daily/logrotate
 %config /etc/logrotate.conf
 %config(noreplace)/etc/logrotate.d/wtmp
+
 %changelog
-* Wed Oct 31 2007 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Jan 31 2008 ro@suse.de
+- log error if target file already exists
+  (upgrade from MESS_DEBUG to MESS_ERROR)
+* Wed Oct 31 2007 ro@suse.de
 - added bzip2 as dependency since it's used as default compressor
   (#334555)
-* Thu Aug 16 2007 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Aug 16 2007 ro@suse.de
 - update to 3.7.5 with some bugfixes containing:
   - 251040 config option size not handled correctly
 - added the current fedora patchkit which adds shred support
-* Mon Aug 07 2006 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Aug 07 2006 ro@suse.de
 - try adding new option "addextension" which provides what
   some users expected the old "extension" keyword to do
-* Wed Jun 21 2006 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Jun 21 2006 ro@suse.de
 - update to 3.7.4
   - adds the "minsize" option
 - clean up comments in sample logrotate.conf (#183440)
-* Wed Jan 25 2006 - mls@suse.de
+* Wed Jan 25 2006 mls@suse.de
 - converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires
-* Wed Jan 11 2006 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Jan 11 2006 ro@suse.de
 - fixed segfault in autoext patch (#142021)
-* Fri Dec 09 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri Dec 09 2005 ro@suse.de
 - updated to 3.7.3
 - removed upstreamed patches
 - added autoext patch for determining file extension
   from used compression program
-* Tue Oct 18 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Oct 18 2005 ro@suse.de
 - update to upstream patchkit
-* Tue Oct 11 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Oct 11 2005 ro@suse.de
 - update to 3.7.2 and some upstream patches
-* Tue Oct 11 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Oct 11 2005 ro@suse.de
 - fix else case in maxage patch (thanks to pvrabec)
-* Tue Jul 26 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Jul 26 2005 ro@suse.de
 - added noTMPDIR and selinux patches
-* Fri May 20 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri May 20 2005 ro@suse.de
 - update to 3.7.1
-* Wed Apr 20 2005 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Apr 20 2005 ro@suse.de
 - cron-script: give some more details when things fail
-* Mon Sep 06 2004 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Sep 06 2004 ro@suse.de
 - changed patch sequence, simple ones first
 - added one-liner fix from cvs
 - fix mail call
 - fix uninitialized variable when mailing out first rotation
 - fix number of logs kept with dateext
-* Thu Mar 25 2004 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Mar 25 2004 ro@suse.de
 - adapted logger path (#36947)
-* Mon Feb 23 2004 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Feb 23 2004 ro@suse.de
 - update to version 3.7
-* Fri Oct 17 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri Oct 17 2003 ro@suse.de
 - don't build as root
 - use defattr
-* Mon Oct 13 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Oct 13 2003 ro@suse.de
 - updated to 3.6.10 and ported patches
-* Thu Jun 12 2003 - kukuk@suse.de
+* Thu Jun 12 2003 kukuk@suse.de
 - /etc/logrotate.d is part of filesystem
-* Thu Jan 23 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Jan 23 2003 ro@suse.de
 - update to 3.6.6 (some tmpfile fixes, new options supported)
 - remove system-config /etc/logrotate.d/aaa_base and all code
   messing with it (all logrotate configs have been moved to
   their respective packages)
 - add /etc/logrotate.d/wtmp
-* Thu Jan 23 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Jan 23 2003 ro@suse.de
 - remove mgetty logfiles
-* Mon Jan 20 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jan 20 2003 ro@suse.de
 - remove i4l logfiles
-* Thu Jan 16 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Jan 16 2003 ro@suse.de
 - removed xdm logfile from main config (in XFree86 now)
-* Wed Jan 15 2003 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Jan 15 2003 ro@suse.de
 - removed more files from main config and moved to their packages
-* Mon Nov 11 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Nov 11 2002 ro@suse.de
 - fix deprecated multiline string literals
-* Mon Oct 14 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Oct 14 2002 ro@suse.de
 - remove postgresql logfile from config on update (#20860)
-* Mon Oct 14 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Oct 14 2002 ro@suse.de
 - moved syslog logrotation config to syslogd package
-* Mon Sep 23 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Sep 23 2002 ro@suse.de
 - mark logrotate.del as missingok
-* Mon Sep 09 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Sep 09 2002 ro@suse.de
 - remove handling of /var/account/pacct (moved to acct package)
-* Fri Aug 16 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri Aug 16 2002 ro@suse.de
 - dropped insserv from prereq (not used)
-* Mon Aug 05 2002 - kukuk@suse.de
+* Mon Aug 05 2002 kukuk@suse.de
 - Add rm and mv to PreRequires
-* Wed Jul 31 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Jul 31 2002 ro@suse.de
 - fixed typo in specfile
 - added comment in config-file about bzip2 usage
-* Mon Jul 29 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jul 29 2002 ro@suse.de
 - removed fetchmail logrotate entry (#17279)
-* Mon Jul 29 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jul 29 2002 ro@suse.de
 - removed apache,smail,perforce,abuild components
 - remove old entries also from logrotate.d/aaa_base on update
-* Mon Jul 29 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jul 29 2002 ro@suse.de
 - squid components removed (done in squid package now) (#17278)
-* Fri Jul 19 2002 - gd@suse.de
+* Fri Jul 19 2002 gd@suse.de
 - fixed samba log paths
-* Fri Jul 12 2002 - kukuk@suse.de
+* Fri Jul 12 2002 kukuk@suse.de
 - Fix post-install script for the case that there is no rc.config
-* Mon Jun 24 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jun 24 2002 ro@suse.de
 - fixed squid log paths (#16557)
-* Wed May 08 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu May 09 2002 ro@suse.de
 - uucp-logfiles are handled by own config
-* Mon Mar 18 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Mar 19 2002 ro@suse.de
 - don't rotate any file for /var/log/news.*
-* Fri Mar 01 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri Mar 01 2002 ro@suse.de
 - don't overwrite logfiles with dateext if run more than once
   a day (partial solution for #13202)
-* Mon Feb 25 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Feb 25 2002 ro@suse.de
 - install etc_logfiles as 644
-* Tue Feb 19 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Feb 19 2002 ro@suse.de
 - removed yast from logrotate.d
-* Sat Feb 16 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Sat Feb 16 2002 ro@suse.de
 - removed postgresql logfile (handled by package)
-* Mon Jan 07 2002 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Jan 07 2002 ro@suse.de
 - take wtmp out of default config
-* Fri Dec 14 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Fri Dec 14 2001 ro@suse.de
 - really remove old variable from rc.config
-* Wed Dec 12 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Wed Dec 12 2001 ro@suse.de
 - mark files in /etc/logrotate.d as noreplace
-* Tue Dec 11 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Dec 11 2001 ro@suse.de
 - implement maxage if dateext is not used
 - uncompress log for mail if maillast is used
-* Mon Dec 10 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Dec 10 2001 ro@suse.de
 - added etc_logfiles as reminder to sources
 - moved convert script into postinstall and try to find
   old etc/logfiles and use etc_logfiles as fallback
 - added yast and syslog to /etc/logrotate.d as config files
-* Mon Dec 10 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Dec 10 2001 ro@suse.de
 - added maxage extension
-* Thu Dec 06 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Thu Dec 06 2001 ro@suse.de
 - split patches for purpose
-* Tue Dec 04 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Dec 04 2001 ro@suse.de
 - archiving option changed to "dateext" and
   works completely transparent otherwise
-* Tue Nov 27 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Nov 27 2001 ro@suse.de
 - added multiple rotation criteria can be selected at one time
 - added/completed implementation for days (max days)
-* Mon Nov 26 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Mon Nov 26 2001 ro@suse.de
 - added archiving option
 - added script to convert /etc/logfiles
-* Tue Nov 13 2001 - ro@suse.de
+* Tue Nov 13 2001 ro@suse.de
 - initial package for SuSE Linux (version 3.5.9)