Ubuntu 18.04 LTS provides the versions shown below of logwatch, postfix, and postfix-policyd-spf-python. This particular release of logwatch is old, and does not correctly process some of the messages produced by postfix-policyd-spf-python. As a result, reports from logwatch are noisy with false alerts. The current release of logwatch from upstream (7.5.2) contains code which handles the messages involved.
A simple workaround is to extract the .../scripts/services/postfix file and install it under /etc/logwatch, but the reason for using a package manager is precisely to avoid having to make this kind of intervention.
How should this version incompatibility best be escalated to the Ubuntu LTS maintenance (or release engineering) team?
$ apt list -a postfix logwatch postfix-policyd-spf-python
Listing... Done
logwatch/bionic-updates,bionic-updates,now 7.4.3+git20161207-2ubuntu1.1 all [installed]
logwatch/bionic,bionic 7.4.3+git20161207-2ubuntu1 all
postfix/bionic-updates,now 3.3.0-1ubuntu0.2 amd64 [installed]
postfix/bionic 3.3.0-1 amd64
postfix-policyd-spf-python/bionic,bionic,now 2.0.2-1 all [installed]
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