libxmlb now a dependency of fwupd and gnome-software

I’ve just released libxmlb 0.1.3, and merged the branches for fwupd and gnome-software so that it becomes a hard dependency on both projects. A few people have reviewed the libxmlb code, and Mario, Kalev and Robert reviewed the fwupd and gnome-software changes so I’m pretty confident I’ve not broken anything too important — but more testing very welcome. GNOME Software RSS usage is about 50% of what is shipped in 3.30.x and fwupd is down by 65%! If you want to ship the upcoming fwupd 1.2.0 or gnome-software 3.31.2 in your distro you’ll need to have libxmlb packaged, or be happy using a meson subpackage to download libxmlb during the build of each dependent project.

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Richard has over 10 years of experience developing open source software. He is the maintainer of GNOME Software, PackageKit, GNOME Packagekit, GNOME Power Manager, GNOME Color Manager, colord, and UPower and also contributes to many other projects and opensource standards. Richard has three main areas of interest on the free desktop, color management, package management, and power management. Richard graduated a few years ago from the University of Surrey with a Masters in Electronics Engineering. He now works for Red Hat in the desktop group, and also manages a company selling open source calibration equipment. Richard's outside interests include taking photos and eating good food.