Ubuntu "ant" alters the SAX configuration

[jsalvata]

The ant launch script (ant-1.8.1-1) contains these Debian-specific lines, which alter the environment enough for some tests which pass in other environments to fail in Ubuntu:

if [ -z "$LOCALCLASSPATH" ] ; then
  LOCALCLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar"
else
  LOCALCLASSPATH="/usr/share/java/xmlParserAPIs.jar:/usr/share/java/xercesImpl.jar:$LOCALCLASSPATH"
fi

In my case, the Scala compiler build was failing (at target test.scaladoc). It worked after commenting out these lines.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

This bug was fixed in the package ant - 1.9.4-3ubuntu1

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ant (1.9.4-3ubuntu1) vivid; urgency=medium

  * Revert back to using libgnumail-java to avoid inclusion of Maven
    in Ubuntu main.
 -- James Page <email address hidden> Tue, 27 Jan 2015 16:35:45 +0000