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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
+To: notmuch@notmuchmail.org\r
+Subject: Give test messages unique timestamps\r
+Date: Sun, 8 Dec 2013 23:52:22 +0800\r
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+It turns out that having all messages with the same timestamp leads to\r
+some nondeterministic behaviour of the test suite (see e.g.https://buildd.debian.org/status/fetch.php?pkg=notmuch&arch=i386&ver=0.17%7Erc3-1&stamp=1386412394) \r
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+Decreasing timestamps are chosen to reduce the number of changes\r
+needed to the test suite. The first three patches are independent of\r
+this choice.\r
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+ test/emacs | 12 +++++++-----\r
+ test/emacs-show | 10 ++++++----\r
+ test/encoding | 8 ++++----\r
+ test/excludes | 4 ++--\r
+ test/maildir-sync | 15 +++++----------\r
+ test/missing-headers | 8 +++++---\r
+ test/multipart | 2 +-\r
+ test/raw | 8 ++++----\r
+ test/test-lib.sh | 15 ++++++++++++---\r
+ 9 files changed, 46 insertions(+), 36 deletions(-)\r
+\r
+\r