[packagekit] PackageKit 0.8.17 released!

[Richard Hughes]

Version 0.8.17
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Released: 2014-03-21

Backends:
 - Katja: Add cache_info table (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Add header files to the Makefile (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Add metadata.db (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Exclude duplicates from search results (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Exclude obsolete from the search results (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Force refresh if the cache is too old (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Parse MANIFEST.bz2 (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Recognize obsolete packages (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Remember configuration modifications (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Download single packages (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Fix wrong of patch metadata (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Remove obsolete packages on update-packages (Eugene Wissner)
 - Katja: Search file (Eugene Wissner)
 - aptcc: Change some changelog formatting which can confuse markdown
parsers (Matthias Klumpp)
 - aptcc: Make changelog-loading future-proof on Debian/Tanglu (Matthias Klumpp)
 - hawkey: Allow packages to change architecture when updating (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Do not replace all kernel packages with a new update (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Fix installing i386 packages on a 64bit computer (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Free memory after g_file_new_for_path (Eugene Wissner)
 - hawkey: Get and set the correct keys in the yumdb (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Release locks early if the state fails (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Return a depsolved list when doing GetUpdates (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Run GetDetails() in a thread to avoid blocking the daemon
(Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Save the previously downloaded packages when refreshing the
cache (Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Support more filter modes when getting the list of repos
(Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: Use the cache age in deciding when to download new metadata
(Richard Hughes)
 - hawkey: if a specified a specific cache-age then do not use the
sack cache (Richard Hughes)

New Features:
 - Allow optionally shutting down after applying updates (Richard Hughes)
 - Set an idle IO priority for background threaded transactions (Richard Hughes)

Bugfixes:
 - Do not disregard any transaction that takes more than 43 seconds
(Richard Hughes)
 - Do not install into python_sitelib (Richard Hughes)
 - Fix directory path in the docs (Eugene Wissner)
 - Return an error if a client tries to execute an unknown method
(Richard Hughes)
 - Set the default cache-age to 'never' (Richard Hughes)
 - When using 'pkcon install' assume arch filter (Richard Hughes)

Tarballs available here: http://people.freedesktop.org/~hughsient/releases/

Richard