Bug#979624: ant doesn't work when called as /bin/ant

[tony mancill]

On Sat, Jan 09, 2021 at 10:06:31AM +0100, Jochen Topf wrote:
> Package: ant
> Version: 1.10.5-2
> Severity: normal
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> When calling "ant" through "/bin/ant" instead of "/usr/bin/ant" it fails
> with "/bin/ant: 1: cd: can't cd to /bin/../share/ant/bin/..". This also
> happens when "/bin" is in $PATH before "/usr/bin".

Hi Jochen,

This looks like a duplicate of bug #914748 [1] and is addressed by the
patch [2].  (I tested on a system with usrmerge installed to be sure.)
However, the patch hasn't been backported to stable.

Cheers,
tony

[1] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=914748
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/java-team/ant/-/blob/master/debian/patches/0017-usrmerge-proof.patch


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