[Bug 2086771] Re: pkcon crashes in transaction with user prompt

[Andreas Hasenack]

https://ubuntu-archive-team.ubuntu.com/proposed-
migration/noble/update_excuses.html#packagekit says that packagekit
depends on apt for the noble update, but I think this does not apply
here and I see no packagekit failures under that apt package.

In any case, I quickly tested installing the updated packagekit packages
from noble-proposed on a noble system without also updating apt from
proposed, and there were no obvious problems. And the test plan was also
executed in the comment above.

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Title:
  pkcon crashes in transaction with user prompt

Status in packagekit package in Ubuntu:
  Fix Released
Status in packagekit source package in Oracular:
  Fix Released

Bug description:
  [ Impact ]

  `pkcon install <pkg>` crashes after install, and likewise
  `pkcon remove <pkg>` crashes after removal.

  More in general, all pkcon transactions that prompt the user with a
  question like "Proceed with changes? [N/y]" will crash after
  completing the transaction.

  This is fixed by correcting a reference counting issue which was
  causing a double-free.

  [ Test Case 1 ]
  1. Run `pkcon install 2048`
  2. Answer `n` to "Proceed with changes? [N/y]"
  3. Verify that pkcon does not print
       GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: 12:02:00.011: g_object_unref: assertion 'G_IS_OBJECT (object)' failed

  [ Test Case 2 ]
  1. Run `pkcon install 2048`
  2. Answer `y` to "Proceed with changes? [N/y]"
  3. Complete the install
  4. Verify that pkcon did not crash with segmentation fault

  [ Where things could go wrong ]
  If the fix is too broad, we could be leaking memory, but pkcon is not a daemon anyways.
  If the fix is not broad enough, the issue might still be happening in specific cases we haven't tested.

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