[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.6 released!

[Richard Hughes]

Version 0.8.6
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Released: 2012-11-26

Libraries:
 - glib: Add pk_package_sack_to_file() to save the sack to disk (Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Check for failure to copy files when making a service pack
(Richard Hughes)
 - glib: Remove some unused code spotted by coverity (Richard Hughes)
 - qt: Move the libpackagekit-qt code to a separate project (Richard Hughes)

Backends:
 - aptcc: Fix valgrind warning about use of uninitialized var (Daniel Nicoletti)
 - urpmi: Add support Mageia too (& next Mdv Server) (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Fix compilation without UPDATE_SYSTEM (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Fix displaying inverted repo_list status (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Fix filter_installed (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Fix "pkcon repo-list" failing to parse (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Port to the new PkTransactionFlags API (Thierry Vignaud)
 - urpmi: Use utf8:: functions instead of Encode (Thierry Vignaud)
 - yum: Don't crash when resolving groups (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Don't rely on a blacklist for RequireRestart (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Handle NoMoreMirrorsRepoError when using repo.getPackage()
(Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Only emit the package list once when using WhatProvides() with
multiple search terms (Richard Hughes)
 - yum: Use a the error NoPackagesToUpdate when there are no updates
available (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Don't try to cancel the backend if it's not running (Richard Hughes)
 - zif: Remove an unused variable spotted by coverity (Richard Hughes)

New Features:
 - Add a 'make coverity' command to the buildsystem (Richard Hughes)
 - cnf: Don't search for packages if backend is known to be too slow
(Elad Alfassa)
 - Convert Python scripts to Python3 and make it possible to use
Python3 (Matthias Klumpp)
 - Reinstate 'pkcon list-create' for the service pack functionality
(Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Always return the DBus error when input validation fails (Richard Hughes)
 - Check the return value of fcntl before spawning the helper (Richard Hughes)
 - cnf: Check for ctrl-d when the user selects a package to install
(Richard Hughes)
 - cnf: Fall back to MaxSearchTime=5000 if the config file is missing
(Elad Alfassa)
 - Correctly match the installed file to a package when checking
shared libraries (Richard Hughes)
 - Correct the pkcon example in the pkgenpack man page (Richard Hughes)
 - Discard any user input over 64 chars when asking for a package
number (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not abort the transaction if the plugin exits with success
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not divide by zero if all the time gradients are invalid (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not send the UpdatesChanged signal for only-download or simulate
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not try to run the job signal callback when it has been
disconnected (Richard Hughes)
 - Do not use --force for 'pkcon refresh' it gets swallowed by the
option parser (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't throw a cryptic warning when 'pkcon update' has no packages
needing an update (Richard Hughes)
 - Don't try to cancel the backend if it's not running after thread
setup (Richard Hughes)
 - Emit RequireRestart(system) in a PackageKit daemon plugin (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix a crash on 32bit when using DownloadSizeRemaining (Richard Hughes)
 - Perform the simulation of spawned transactions correctly (Richard Hughes)
 - Show a progressbar if the user presses [esc] during the system
update to get to text mode (Richard Hughes)
 - Simplify check for polkit (Ryan Lortie)
 - Update website C sample for installing packages (Matthias Klumpp)

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

Richard.