You may manually increase time to keep this log files. Edit
/etc/logrotate.conf:
...
/var/log/wtmp {
missingok
monthly
create 0664 root utmp
rotate 1 <------ change this value to 12 to keep log files for 12 months
}
...
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wtmp retention period is very short
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