[packagekit] PackageKit 0.7.2 released!

[Richard Hughes]

Version 0.7.2
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2011-01-17

Notes:
 - Lots of new features, bugfixes and bugs, so please test this release
   carefully if you're uploading into a stable distribution. If you want
   stability, you're probably better off with a release from the
   0.6.x series until all the new stuff has settled down.

Libraries:
 - glib: Convert libpackagekit-glib2 from dbus-glib to GDBus (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Skip empty catalog entries (Christian Persch)
 - qt: automatically rebuild moc files with different moc version
(Nils Philippsen)

Backends:
 - apt: Adapt progress reporting to the latest PackageKit and
python-apt API (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Add a test suite covering already most of the methods
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Add support for piping the debconf communication to the client
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Add support for repair-system and simulate-repair-system
including correpsonding test cases (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Add tests if security updates and backports are detected
correctly (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Disable apt-listbugs frontend (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Do not try to install not available files (TODO.apt)
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Don't open the cache on backend initialization to speed up
processing (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Don't use optparse to safe some startup time. Instead use a
separate profiler script (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Fix a wrong str/unicode replacement by the Py3 preparation
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Fix filter tests since we have a new package in the test repo
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Fix media change failure and a test case (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Fix repo details signals (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Improve detection and killing of hanging maintainer scripts
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Improve forked child setup (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: improve progress range handling (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: More python3 related clean ups (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Port to latest PackageKit API (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Raise exceptions in the backend code instead of calling
PackageKitBaseBackend.error directly (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: remove encoding mangling - should be handled by
packagekit.backend already (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: remove oboslete files (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Respect the ROOT environement variable (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Start with updating the backend on several places (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Too many API and style fixes to count (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Use the apt.progress.base.InstallProgress abilities to handle
dpkg progress (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: use the dpkg bin and options from the apt configuration
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - apt: Use the ROOT env to set the backend to the chroot and the
correct path to the test repo (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - aptcc: Add Multi-Arch support (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Add native filter so we do not show i386 packages if we are
on amd64 for example (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Fix crash on get-categories, backend does not support that
(Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: forgot to add DebFile class (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Initial commit to support InstallPackageFiles (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Only return GetDistroUpgrades and installFiles if the
helpers are available (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Properly read GDebi install/remove line (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - aptcc: Use gdebi to resolve local file installation, Fix conffile
handlying by interpreting the exit status properly (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - apt(cc): Use gdbus in the post-update hook call to StateHasChanged
(Sebastian Heinlein)
 - dummy: Add dummy RepairSystem methods (Richard Hughes)
 - urpmi: Add enums for unimplemented features as commented out code
(Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Add support for provide type (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Do matching against fullname (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: First shot at what-provides (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Fix 'Using a hash as a reference is deprecated' warning (Per
Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement a 'Supported' filter (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement 'Cancel' feature (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement 'Free' filter (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement get_mime_types (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement get_roles (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Implement is_package_installed() which uses
URPM:is_package_installed() (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: import urpm::msg for N() (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Make find_installed_version use EVRD (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Put 'supported' filter to use (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Traverse database by name rather than nvra (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Update to use find_installed_fullname (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - urpmi: Use urpm2deium from tools & check if undefined or not (Per
Øyvind Karlsen)
 - yum: Use current API for installing untrusted packages (Nils Philippsen)
 - yum: Consistently use same logic to determine GPG checking (Nils Philippsen)
 - yum: Don't request authorization for trusted packages (#771746)
(Nils Philippsen)
 - zif: Use the new transaction_reset hook to clear the backend state
(Richard Hughes)
 - zypp: Retrieve url for packages instead of returning "TODO" (Duncan
Mac-Vicar P)

New Features:
 - Add a new repair-system policy and use it by the corresponding
RepairSystem method (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - Add a transaction_reset backend hook (Richard Hughes)
 - Add new roles SimulateRepairSystem and RepairSystem (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - Add pk_*_enum_to_localised_text to pk-enum.h and export via GIR
(Michael Vogt)
 - Add possibility to connect/disconnect backend signals (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Add PropertiesChanged signals to the main and transaction
interfaces (Richard Hughes)
 - Allow the Plasma version to be specified for
PK_PROVIDES_ENUM_PLASMA_SERVICE (Kevin Kofler)

Bugfixes:
 - browser-plugin: Make it compile with newest xulrunner (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Fix a critical warning in the client tools when a simulation is
cancelled (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix builddir != srcdir issue (Ryan Lortie)
 - Fix item-percentage call in the spawned backend (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - gtk-plugin: Fix name of GTK plugin schema file (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Make PkProc part of the daemon again (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Remove deprecated g_thread_init() on GLib < 2.31 (Per Øyvind Karlsen)
 - Set the frontend socket as environment variable in the spawned
backend (Sebastian Heinlein)
 - Update the website matrix to include the new (Simulate)RepairSystem
roles (Sebastian Heinlein)

Tarballs available here: http://www.packagekit.org/releases/

Richard.