On Tue, 04 May 2010 12:09:56 -0700, Carl Worth <cworth@cworth.org> wrote:
> To properly do the lower-level fix for (2), we'll need to know the
> answer to (1). Olly, do you have an answer on the intended semantics of
> Xapian iterators?

Just to close the loop on this one. Olly identified the behavior as a
bug in Xapian 1.0.20 and released a new 1.0.20-2 package (into Debian at
least).

So with an updated Xapian, people should no longer be seeing this
failure from the notmuch test suite.

-Carl