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2.15.0 release

Enhancements:
- Add a support for decompressing Zstandard-compressed YAML files.
  modulemd_detect_compression() function now recognizes files with "zst" file
  name extension and files with Zstandard magic bytes and returns
  MODULEMD_COMPRESSION_TYPE_ZSTD_COMPRESSION constant for them.
  modulemd_module_index_update_from_file() can load Zstandard-compressed YAML
  files now.
- Remove a dependency on "file" library (libmagic). libmodulemd now implements
  its own detection of supported compression formats. This saves roughly 9 MB
  from a minimal system installation.
- An XML specification for in-YUM-repository metadata is available in
  "xml_specs" directory. This new format aspires for replacing modulemd-v2,
  modulemd-defaults-v1 and modulemd-translations-v1 YAML formats. A motivation
  is to unify with other XML files in YUM repositories. Please note that this
  specification is not yet implemented.

Incompatible changes:
- Meson minimal version increased to 0.55.

Deprecation:
- Deprecate intents in modulemd-defaults specification. System intents, which
  parameterize a default stream and default profiles of a module, were never
  implemented in the package managers (e.g. DNF). Users are discouraged from
  using this feature. Future libmodulmed versions might deprecate and later
  remove parts of an API pertaining the intents.

Fixes:
- Fix a crash when converting a modulemd-packager object with a default
  profile and without a module name or stream to a module index.
- Fix parsing empty profiles. Previously a profile with an empty rpms list was
  misparsed as a list with a single, empty package name.
- A specification for modulemd-v2 format was corrected to require a "content"
  license subtree only if the module build contains artifacts.
- Double-quote strings in scalar YAML values when they look like a number.
  Most of the fields in the YAML files are required to be interpreted as
  strings. Unaware third-party parsers could misinterpret number-like strings
  (e.g. 2.30) as floats (i.e. 2.3), leading to mismatching string
  representations. This is now prevented by quoting these values (i.e.
  "2.30").
- A build script now correctly asserts a requested Python version. Previously
  Python 3 /usr/bin/python program could be mistaken with Python 2
  interpreter.
- meson-0.64.0 warnings about "check" option of run_command() were fixed.
- Warnings from g_str_equal() macro of glib2 about passing an unsigned
  char * to strcmp() were fixed.