These are less crucial since we stopped generating new database
versions and relied primarily on features. They also rely on a
pre-generated v1 database which happens to be chert format. This
backend is not supported by Xapian 1.5.
Also drop the tool gen-testdb.sh, which is currently broken, due to
changes in the testing infrastructure.
https://launchpad.net/~notmuch/+archive/ubuntu/notmuch/+packages
contains backports of gmime and gpgme and related cryptographic tools
to ubuntu xenial.
I tried to do a simple backport of gmime alone, and it failed due to
the older gpgme in xenial, so this setup resolves those problems.
This should allow us to continue to use the Travis continuous
integration build.
Signed-off-by: Daniel Kahn Gillmor <dkg@fifthhorseman.net>
Builds not requiring sudo access run in a container, which will have
better performance and less overhead on the Travis infrastructure.
Use the apt addon to install dependencies instead of explicit apt-get
commands.
Travis now offers Ubuntu Trusty (14.04 LTS) VMs as test runners, which
is gradually becoming the default. We can opt in to using Trusty now
so that we no longer need to manually update zlib to a newer version.
Download the test message database used for the T530-upgrade.sh test.
If the additional load on the web server is undesired, Travis can be
instructed to cache the file.