Bug#914748: ant: Fail when installed along with usrmerge and invoked via /bin/ant
Gilles Filippini
pini at debian.org
Mon Nov 26 22:38:46 GMT 2018
Hi Markus,
Markus Koschany a écrit le 26/11/2018 à 23:10 :
> Hi,
>
> Am 26.11.18 um 22:46 schrieb Gilles Filippini:
>> Package: ant
>> Version: 1.9.10-1
>> Severity: serious
>> Tags: patch
>> Justification: Causes FTBFS
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> When installed along with usrmerge, ant can be invoked via /bin/ant. In this case it fails with:
>
> [...]
>
> Just some quick notes, not that I'm strongly opposed against usrmerge or
> dislike the idea in general but this is somehow odd. First of all why is
> this serious now? I know there is an ongoing discussion on debian-devel
> about usrmerge but when was it decided to file RC bugs and make this
> release-critical? I suppose opencv will work perfectly fine with the
> traditional file system layout?
To me this is RC because it makes opencv FTBFS on some official buildd
machines. No opinion at all about usrmerge.
> In any case it is not a very good idea to diverge from upstream or to
> carry yet another patch. I wonder why this hasn't been changed already
> because Fedora moved to this scheme already and they should have noticed
> that too.
In any case the scriplet replaced by the patch is buggy.
How about pushing this patch upstream?
Thanks,
_g.
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