popt future?

[Paul Eggleton]

Hi there

I'm a contributor to the Yocto Project [1] and OpenEmbedded [2]. The Yocto 
Project's reference distribution (Poky), which makes use of OpenEmbedded, uses 
RPM packaging by default. As you would imagine, we build and package popt as a 
dependency of RPM, but recently there have been some questions over how well 
maintained the popt library is - looking at the repository [3] the last commit 
appears to be in 2017 and the last official release appears to be 1.16 in 
2010. Fedora, OpenSUSE and Debian all appear to be building the 1.16 release 
with some patches on top, as we are doing. The homepage links on rpm5.org now 
seem to be defunct.

I understand that RPM isn't the only user of popt, but given that RPM is 
arguably the *main* user, are there any current plans to do any further work 
on it? (I'm not asking because I think there are missing features, it's more 
about there being someone actively maintaining the library in case of future 
bugs/security issues.)

Thanks,
Paul

[1] https://www.yoctoproject.org/
[2] http://www.openembedded.org/
[3] https://github.com/rpm-software-management/popt/

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Paul Eggleton
Intel Open Source Technology Centre