On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 00:06:59 +0000 (UTC), Olly Betts <olly@survex.com> wrote:
> I've backported the term update optimisation patches
> <http://trac.xapian.org/ticket/250> to Xapian's 1.0 branch, and you can
> find snapshot tarballs including these changes here:
> 
> http://oligarchy.co.uk/xapian/branches/1.0/
> 
> Xapian's testsuite passes (including the additional test coverage which I
> also backported), and I looked over each change carefully, but I would be
> interested to see some real world testing, particularly in the situation
> which these changes are intended to improve (i.e. speed of tagging in
> notmuch).

Hey, Olly.  Thanks so much for backporting this patch and uploading a
patched package to Debian experimental (which is now available):

servo:~ 0$ apt-cache policy libxapian-dev
libxapian-dev:
  Installed: 1.0.17+svn13879-1
  Candidate: 1.0.17+svn13879-1
  Version table:
 *** 1.0.17+svn13879-1 0
          1 http://ftp.us.debian.org experimental/main Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.17-1 0
        500 http://debian.lcs.mit.edu testing/main Packages
        200 http://ftp.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages
servo:~ 0$ 

I just installed this new version from a Debian experimental repo,
rebuilt notmuch against the new installation, and everything seems to be
working great.  I'll report back any issues to the BTS.  Thanks again.

jamie.