diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index aff48da..9dec237 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -13,7 +13,6 @@ Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, lsb-base (>= 3.0-6)
 Provides: syslogd, linux-kernel-log-daemon, system-log-daemon
 Conflicts: syslogd, linux-kernel-log-daemon, system-log-daemon
-Recommends: logrotate
 Description: system logging daemon
  Continuation of the original syslog daemon for Linux, based on the *BSD
  syslog daemon.  Now with kernel logging and log rotation built-in.  It
diff --git a/debian/syslogd.default b/debian/syslogd.default
index ed51ae0..be33dc7 100644
--- a/debian/syslogd.default
+++ b/debian/syslogd.default
@@ -4,4 +4,5 @@
 
 # Secure mode enabled, forwarding to remote servers allowed, disable
 # with another '-s', logging from remote servers disallowed.
-SYSLOGD_OPTS="-s"
+# Default log rotation at 10 MiB, keeping 10 backlog copies.
+SYSLOGD_OPTS="-s -r 10M:10"