Update included popt to version 1.7

[Jos Backus]

On Sun, May 04, 2003 at 01:41:53AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote:
> Don't do that - you use the same vendor branch to hold multiple imported
> versions, so forcing it to 1.7.1 is just misleading. Better to let it
> default to 1.1.1, so people immediately notice it is a vendor branch. (Yes,
> I know 1.7.1 can only be a vendor branch since it ends in an odd number, but
> it's not what most people are accustomed to seeing.)

I must be the only one who finds this a very arcane way of doing things.
Fwiw, here's a description of how to do this with Perforce, which I at least
find easier. Ymmv.

    http://www.catnook.com/doc/p4-vendor-branching.html

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