David Bremner <david@tethera.net> writes:

> Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net> writes:
>
>>
>> Please don't introduce this cruft into the notmuch codebase.  It should
>> be fixed in gmime, not worked-around notmuch.
>>
>> I've just uploaded gmime 2.6.19-2 to unstable to address this issue.
>>
>
> Hi Daniel;
>
> Thanks a lot for that. 
>
> What I (still) wonder about is all the people not running Debian, in the
> interval between the release of notmuch 0.17 and the next upstream
> release of gmime (and propagation to various distros).  Even on Debian,
> building on testing and backports complicates things a bit.

An alternative approach would be to fix 

 NOTMUCH_SKIP_TESTS="reply reply-to-sender multipart.37 from-guessing" ./notmuch-test

to return exist status 0, and ideally to print the correct number of
tests skipped.

I think the former just requires patching line 85 of
aggregate-results.sh.  I don't see an easy way to do the latter.

This is arguably less crufty, or at least uses existing cruft. On the
other hand, it doesn't distinguish between a test printing an extra
space, and complete garbage.

d