Comment 3 for bug 1255493

I confirmed it's working.

I should've given this first. Below are instances of how "pkcon get-updates" outputs. I hope this helps if you should improve updates_available for pkcon.

When there are updates available:

$ LC_ALL=C pkcon get-updates -p
Transaction: Getting updates
Status: Waiting in queue
Status: Starting
Status: Getting information
Results:
Bug fix gdb-7.6.1-46.fc19.x86_64
Bug fix ibus-1.5.4-2.fc19.x86_64
Bug fix ibus-gtk2-1.5.4-2.fc19.x86_64
Bug fix ibus-gtk3-1.5.4-2.fc19.x86_64
Bug fix ibus-libs-1.5.4-2.fc19.x86_64
Bug fix ibus-setup-1.5.4-2.fc19.noarch
Security python3-3.3.2-8.fc19.x86_64
Security python3-libs-3.3.2-8.fc19.x86_64

When there are no updates available:

$ LC_ALL=C pkcon get-updates -p
Transaction: Getting updates
Status: Waiting in queue
Status: Starting
Status: Getting information
Results:
There are no updates available at this time.