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+notmuch (0.24~rc0-1) experimental; urgency=medium
+
+  * New upstream feature release (candidate).
+
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 05 Mar 2017 19:32:08 -0400
+
 notmuch (0.23.7-1) unstable; urgency=medium
 
   * Move test suite $GNUPGHOME to /tmp to avoid problems with long build paths.