It's unnecessary to emit those signals when the object is created, and
it can cause weird side-effects if applications e.g. play a sound on
signal emission.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=684677

Michael Terry authored Sep 14, 2012 and Tomáš Bžatek committed Sep 14, 2012

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=582579

... in order to be able to compile.

gvfsdbusutils.c was removed by commit 288e9153 though hal still
needs it for compilation. Let's make it private to hal and strip
unnecessary functions.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683367

William Jon McCann authored Sep 13, 2012 and Alexander Larsson committed Sep 13, 2012

This makes cancel much cleaner and solves a problem
where we were trying to use a previously disposed proxy.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683985

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683770

Thanks Bruno Brouard for the review.

This allows extracting the source tarballs using BSD tar(1) without
bogus PaxHeaders directories lying around.

https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=683709