diff --git a/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix b/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
index 82fa564fa01..6a5b1c7bb7c 100644
--- a/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
+++ b/pkgs/development/libraries/popt/default.nix
@@ -1,10 +1,15 @@
 {stdenv, fetchurl}:
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation {
-  name = "popt-1.15";
-  
+  name = "popt-1.16";
+
   src = fetchurl {
-    url = http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.15.tar.gz;
-    sha256 = "1wqbcimg4zlfp7261i89s1918a46fjfbvq1a4ij4a6prk27576q6";
+    url = "http://rpm5.org/files/popt/popt-1.16.tar.gz";
+    sha256 = "1j2c61nn2n351nhj4d25mnf3vpiddcykq005w2h6kw79dwlysa77";
   };
+
+  meta = {
+    description = "command line option parsing library";
+  };
+
 }