Bug#914748: ant: Fail when installed along with usrmerge and invoked via /bin/ant

[pini]

On Mon, 26 Nov 2018 23:54:06 +0100 Emmanuel Bourg <ebourg at apache.org> wrote:
> Control: severity -1 normal
> 
> Le 26/11/2018 à 23:38, Gilles Filippini a écrit :
> 
> > To me this is RC because it makes opencv FTBFS on some official buildd
> > machines. No opinion at all about usrmerge.
> 
> My understanding is that usrmerge is optional at this point and the
> builders are going to be reverted to non usrmerged. For this reason I'm
> lowering the severity.
> 
> 
> > In any case the scriplet replaced by the patch is buggy.
> > How about pushing this patch upstream?
> 
> The patch looks good to me, thanks a lot. Do you know if readlink is
> commonly available on other Unix platforms?

I don't know. In case it's not, it's easy to test and fallback on the
removed snippet.

_g.