diff --git a/Makefile.local b/Makefile.local
index 8a8832da..33fdcc93 100644
--- a/Makefile.local
+++ b/Makefile.local
@@ -25,6 +25,7 @@ RELEASE_HOST=notmuchmail.org
 RELEASE_DIR=/srv/notmuchmail.org/www/releases
 RELEASE_URL=http://notmuchmail.org/releases
 TAR_FILE=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+DEB_TAR_FILE=$(PACKAGE)_$(VERSION).orig.tar.gz
 SHA1_FILE=$(TAR_FILE).sha1
 GPG_FILE=$(SHA1_FILE).asc
 
@@ -60,7 +61,13 @@ endif
 endif
 
 $(TAR_FILE):
-	git archive --format=tar --prefix=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/ HEAD > $(TAR_FILE).tmp
+	if git tag -v $(VERSION) >/dev/null 2>&1; then \
+           ref=$(VERSION); \
+        else \
+           ref="HEAD" ; \
+	   echo "Warning: No signed tag for $(VERSION)"; \
+	fi ; \
+	git archive --format=tar --prefix=$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/ $$ref > $(TAR_FILE).tmp
 	echo $(VERSION) > version.tmp
 	tar --append -f $(TAR_FILE).tmp --transform s_^_$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)/_  --transform 's_.tmp$$__' version.tmp
 	rm version.tmp
@@ -87,21 +94,21 @@ dist: $(TAR_FILE)
 .PHONY: release
 release: verify-source-tree-and-version
 	$(MAKE) VERSION=$(VERSION) verify-newer
+	$(MAKE) VERSION=$(VERSION) clean
 	$(MAKE) VERSION=$(VERSION) test
-	rm -rf ./debian-build
-	git-buildpackage
-	cp debian-build/notmuch_$(VERSION).tar.gz notmuch-$(VERSION).tar.gz
+	git tag -s -m "$(PACKAGE) $(VERSION) release" $(VERSION)
 	$(MAKE) VERSION=$(VERSION) $(GPG_FILE)
-	scp $(TAR_FILE) $(SHA1_FILE) $(GPG_FILE) $(RELEASE_HOST):$(RELEASE_DIR)
-	ssh $(RELEASE_HOST) "rm -f $(RELEASE_DIR)/LATEST-$(PACKAGE)-[0-9]* && ln -s $(TAR_FILE) $(RELEASE_DIR)/LATEST-$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)"
+	ln -sf $(TAR_FILE) $(DEB_TAR_FILE)
+	pristine-tar commit $(DEB_TAR_FILE) $(VERSION)
+	git tag -s -m "$(PACKAGE) Debian $(VERSION)-1 upload (same as $(VERSION))" debian/$(VERSION)-1
 	mkdir -p releases
 	mv $(TAR_FILE) $(SHA1_FILE) $(GPG_FILE) releases
-	(cd debian-build; dput *.changes)
-	mv debian-build/* releases
-	rmdir debian-build
-	git tag -s -m "$(PACKAGE) $(VERSION) release" $(VERSION)
-	git push origin $(VERSION)
 	$(MAKE) VERSION=$(VERSION) release-message > $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).announce
+ifeq ($(REALLY_UPLOAD),yes)
+	git push origin $(VERSION)
+	cd releases && scp $(TAR_FILE) $(SHA1_FILE) $(GPG_FILE) $(RELEASE_HOST):$(RELEASE_DIR)
+	ssh $(RELEASE_HOST) "rm -f $(RELEASE_DIR)/LATEST-$(PACKAGE)-[0-9]* ; ln -s $(TAR_FILE) $(RELEASE_DIR)/LATEST-$(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION)"
+endif
 	@echo "Please send a release announcement using $(PACKAGE)-$(VERSION).announce as a template."
 
 .PHONY: release-message
@@ -161,8 +168,8 @@ endif
 
 .PHONY: verify-version-debian
 verify-version-debian: verify-version-components
-	@echo -n "Checking that Debian package version is $(VERSION)..."
-	@if [ "$(VERSION)" != $$(dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Version | awk '{print $$2}') ] ; then \
+	@echo -n "Checking that Debian package version is $(VERSION)-1..."
+	@if [ "$(VERSION)-1" != $$(dpkg-parsechangelog | grep ^Version | awk '{print $$2}') ] ; then \
 		(echo "No." && \
 		 echo "Please edit version and debian/changelog to have consistent versions." && false) \
 	 fi
@@ -180,11 +187,16 @@ verify-version-components:
 .PHONY: verify-newer
 verify-newer:
 	@echo -n "Checking that no $(VERSION) release already exists..."
-	@ssh $(RELEASE_HOST) test ! -e $(RELEASE_DIR)/$(TAR_FILE) \
-		|| (echo "Ouch." && echo "Found: $(RELEASE_HOST):$(RELEASE_DIR)/$(TAR_FILE)" \
-		&& echo "Refusing to replace an existing release." \
-		&& echo "Don't forget to update \"version\" as described in RELEASING before release." && false)
-	@echo "Good."
+	@wget -q -O /dev/null $(RELEASE_URL)/$(TAR_FILE) ; \
+	case $$? in \
+          8) echo "Good." ;; \
+          0) echo "Ouch."; \
+	     echo "Found: $(RELEASE_URL)/$(TAR_FILE)"; \
+	     echo "Refusing to replace an existing release."; \
+	     echo "Don't forget to update \"version\" as described in RELEASING before release." ; \
+	     false ;; \
+	  *) echo "An unexpected error occured"; \
+	     false;; esac
 
 # The user has not set any verbosity, default to quiet mode and inform the
 # user how to enable verbose compiles.
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index f3fefad1..bb58d6b7 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+Notmuch 0.6.1 (2011-07-17)
+==========================
+
+Bug-fix release.
+----------------
+
+Re-export Xapian exception typeinfo symbols.
+  
+  It turned out our aggressive symbol hiding caused problems for
+  people running gcc 4.4.5.
+
 Notmuch 0.6 (2011-07-01)
 =======================
 New, general features
diff --git a/debian/changelog b/debian/changelog
index 0fad868a..37a228c4 100644
--- a/debian/changelog
+++ b/debian/changelog
@@ -1,3 +1,14 @@
+notmuch (0.6.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
+
+  * Properly install README.Debian in notmuch-vim (Closes: #632992).
+    Thanks to Jason Woofenden for the report.
+  * Force notmuch to depend on the same version of libnotmuch. Thanks to
+    Uwe Kleine-König for the patch.
+  * Export typeinfo for Xapian exceptions from libnotmuch. This fixes
+    certain mysterious uncaught exception problems.
+
+ -- David Bremner <bremner@debian.org>  Sun, 17 Jul 2011 10:20:42 -0300
+
 notmuch (0.6) unstable; urgency=low
 
   * New upstream release; see /usr/share/doc/notmuch/NEWS for
diff --git a/debian/control b/debian/control
index 78c9849b..03afdf44 100644
--- a/debian/control
+++ b/debian/control
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Dm-Upload-Allowed: yes
 
 Package: notmuch
 Architecture: any
-Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
+Depends: libnotmuch1 (= ${binary:Version}), ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}
 Recommends: notmuch-emacs | notmuch-vim
 Description: thread-based email index, search and tagging
  Notmuch is a system for indexing, searching, reading, and tagging
diff --git a/debian/libnotmuch1.symbols b/debian/libnotmuch1.symbols
index 8df6fec1..05d86e6d 100644
--- a/debian/libnotmuch1.symbols
+++ b/debian/libnotmuch1.symbols
@@ -70,3 +70,13 @@ libnotmuch.so.1 libnotmuch1 #MINVER#
  notmuch_threads_get@Base 0.3
  notmuch_threads_move_to_next@Base 0.3
  notmuch_threads_valid@Base 0.3
+ (c++)"typeinfo for Xapian::LogicError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo for Xapian::RuntimeError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo for Xapian::DocNotFoundError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo for Xapian::InvalidArgumentError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo for Xapian::Error@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo name for Xapian::LogicError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo name for Xapian::RuntimeError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo name for Xapian::DocNotFoundError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo name for Xapian::InvalidArgumentError@Base" 0.6.1
+ (c++)"typeinfo name for Xapian::Error@Base" 0.6.1
diff --git a/debian/README.notmuch-emacs b/debian/notmuch-emacs.README.Debian
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/README.notmuch-emacs
rename to debian/notmuch-emacs.README.Debian
diff --git a/debian/README.notmuch-vim b/debian/notmuch-vim.README.Debian
similarity index 100%
rename from debian/README.notmuch-vim
rename to debian/notmuch-vim.README.Debian
diff --git a/debian/source/format b/debian/source/format
index 89ae9db8..163aaf8d 100644
--- a/debian/source/format
+++ b/debian/source/format
@@ -1 +1 @@
-3.0 (native)
+3.0 (quilt)
diff --git a/lib/Makefile.local b/lib/Makefile.local
index 88d8debc..9210f0e5 100644
--- a/lib/Makefile.local
+++ b/lib/Makefile.local
@@ -75,9 +75,7 @@ $(dir)/$(LIBNAME): $(libnotmuch_modules) notmuch.sym
 	$(call quiet,CXX $(CXXFLAGS)) $(libnotmuch_modules) $(FINAL_LIBNOTMUCH_LDFLAGS) $(LIBRARY_LINK_FLAG) -o $@
 
 notmuch.sym: lib/notmuch.h
-	printf "{\nglobal:\n" > notmuch.sym
-	sed  -n 's/^[[:space:]]*\(notmuch_[a-z_]*\)[[:space:]]*(.*/'"`printf "\t"`"'\1;/p' $< >> notmuch.sym
-	printf "local: *;\n};\n" >> notmuch.sym
+	sh lib/gen-version-script.sh $< $(libnotmuch_modules) > $@
 
 $(dir)/$(SONAME): $(dir)/$(LIBNAME)
 	ln -sf $(LIBNAME) $@
diff --git a/lib/gen-version-script.sh b/lib/gen-version-script.sh
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..e753eaf5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lib/gen-version-script.sh
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+
+# we go through a bit of work to get the unmangled names of the
+# typeinfo symbols because of
+# http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10326
+
+if [ $# -lt 2 ]; then
+    echo Usage: $0 header obj1 obj2 obj3
+    exit 1;
+fi
+
+HEADER=$1
+shift
+
+printf '{\nglobal:\n'
+nm --defined $* | awk '$3 ~ "Xapian.*Error" {print $3}' | sort | uniq | \
+while read sym; do
+    demangled=$(c++filt $sym)
+    case $demangled in
+	typeinfo*) 
+	    printf "\t$sym;\n"
+	    ;;
+	*)
+	    ;;
+    esac
+done
+sed  -n 's/^\s*\(notmuch_[a-z_]*\)\s*(.*/\t\1;/p' $HEADER
+printf "local: *;\n};\n"
diff --git a/version b/version
index 5a2a5806..ee6cdce3 100644
--- a/version
+++ b/version
@@ -1 +1 @@
-0.6
+0.6.1