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Bug 1843787

Summary:	Rebase popt to 1.18
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Component:	popt	Assignee:	Panu Matilainen <pmatilai>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Eva Mrakova <emrakova>
Severity:	medium	Docs Contact:	Mariya Pershina <mpershin>
Priority:	medium
Version:	8.4	CC:	ffesti, mdomonko, mpershin
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Rebase, Triaged
Target Release:	---	Flags:	pm-rhel: mirror+
Hardware:	Unspecified
OS:	Unspecified
Whiteboard:
Fixed In Version:	popt-1.18-1.el8	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
Doc Text:	.`popt` rebased to version 1.18 The `popt` packages have been upgraded to the upstream version 1.18, which provides the following notable changes over the previous version: * Overall codebase cleanup and modernization. * Failing to drop privileges on the `alias exec` command has been fixed. * Various bugs, including resource leaks, have been fixed.	Story Points:	---
Clone Of:		Environment:
Last Closed:	2021-05-18 15:08:56 UTC	Type:	Component Upgrade
Regression:	---	Mount Type:	---
Documentation:	---	CRM:
Verified Versions:		Category:	---
oVirt Team:	---	RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host:
Cloudforms Team:	---	Target Upstream Version:	1.18
Embargoed:
Bug Depends On:	1681092
Bug Blocks:

Description Panu Matilainen 2020-06-04 06:59:39 UTC

Description of problem:

RHEL 8 currently ships popt 1.16 which is ten years old, is missing several important fixes (including security-oriented) and whose original upstream has dropped off the net more than a year ago. We should rebase popt to a maintained version from the new rebooted upstream: 
http://lists.rpm.org/pipermail/rpm-announce/2020-May/000077.html

Comment 3 Panu Matilainen 2021-01-07 12:47:40 UTC

popt-1.18-1.el8 built, but stuck in gating due to some apparently general outage/failure with leap upgrade tests for now.

Comment 15 errata-xmlrpc 2021-05-18 15:08:56 UTC

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory (popt bug fix and enhancement update), and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2021:1709