[Snyk] Security upgrade electron-packager from 5.2.1 to 6.0.1

[saurabharch]

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Snyk has created this PR to fix one or more vulnerable packages in the `npm` dependencies of this project.

Changes included in this PR

• Changes to the following files to upgrade the vulnerable dependencies to a fixed version:
  • package.json

Vulnerabilities that will be fixed

With an upgrade:

Severity	Priority Score (*)	Issue	Breaking Change	Exploit Maturity
	768/1000 Why? Proof of Concept exploit, Recently disclosed, Has a fix available, CVSS 7.5	Prototype Pollution SNYK-JS-QS-3153490	Yes	Proof of Concept

(*) Note that the real score may have changed since the PR was raised.

Commit messages

Package name: electron-packager

The new version differs by 101 commits.

• fdba440 6.0.1
• 28f961b Merge pull request #312 from develar/patch-1
• 1701125 Linkify version
• 2b08361 Update news for 6.0.1
• be6eb2d update asar to fix https://github.com/Upgrade mksnapshot electron/asar#61
• ce69433 Merge pull request #311 from electron-userland/delete-default-app-asar
• 6f730b8 Add Electron 0.37.4-specific test for default_app.asar
• e51bda4 Delete default_app.asar
• 2469a6b Add note about winetricks
• 0709c23 Example: make it obvious that using a productName with spaces is OK
• ff9d250 Merge pull request #296 from electron-userland/separate-api-docs
• bb64c86 Travis: use trusty env & install dlls for rcedit
• 91ef0f6 Update rcedit dependency
• ef1b4fa A bunch of Electron repos moved into their own GitHub org
• 68413f8 Fix callback function docs
• 6ffcf5a Move API docs to its own file
• eb37ba1 Merge pull request #301 from erkyrath/issue-300-iconname
• 1d02394 Fix for issue 300: --icon option does not work under Electron 0.37.4
• f3f8357 Better location for the release notes link
• 41adc46 Add release notes link to readme
• 86b4ef1 Fix CONTRIBUTING link in readme
• 027e59d Release 6.0.0
• fef6c7b Replace copyObject with object-assign
• cd38cb0 Merge pull request #286 from electron-userland/osx-sign-single-param

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