Bug#893547: ant: please do not emit --ignore-source-errors on Java 9

[tony mancill]

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 09:16:24PM +0100, Ole Streicher wrote:
> Package: ant
> Version: 1.9.9-6
> Severity: serious
> 
> Dear maintainer,
> 
> to fix #884187, ant added the option "--ignore-source-errors" to
> javadoc. This option is however not available on Java 9, which leads to
> FTBFS on some packages: starjava-topcat, starjava-tools. I will merge
> the relevant bug reports.

Ah, this is also the cause for the current FTBFS state of checkstyle.

I'm in the midst of preparing an update for ant.  Is there any context
in which we want to add "--ignore-source-errors" to the ant javadoc
task, or should this patch [1] be removed entirely?

Thanks,
tony

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-java/ant.git/commit/debian/patches/0013-auto-adjust-target.patch?id=2897cc4feed5a7d5bb431096602efecd143c0a78
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