Knowing that we had a bug about the notification table update few time ago, I was worried that when coming from a fresh installed release without that table, the bug was still there. That what I checked: coming from a version without this table, to the latest one. So, I did it from a very old build, to check if anything else was wrong.
If updating from 2.06 to 2.60 there is no bug in database update, there will not be either bug in 2.05 to 2.60 database update.