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

[tony mancill]

On Wed, Mar 28, 2018 at 09:21:45AM +0200, Emmanuel Bourg wrote:
> Le 20/03/2018 à 05:20, tony mancill a écrit :
> 
> > 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?
> 
> It looks like the --ignore-source-errors only works with the default
> doclet. The patch should be refined such that --ignore-source-errors is
> only added if the doclet attribute is null.
> 
> Tony I prepared an upgrade of Ant to the version 1.10.3 before noticing
> you were also working on the package. May I proceed with the upload or
> do you want to upload your changes first?
> 
> Here is my changelog so far:
> 
>   * New upstream release
>     - Refreshed the patches
>     - Changed the source/target level to 1.8 when building Ant
>     - Build the new optional ant-xz module
>     - Require Java 8 or higher to run Ant
>   * Adjust the source/target level to 1.7 in anticipation
>     of the 1.6 removal in Java 11
>   * Added activation.jar to the build classpath to fix
>     the empty ant-javamail jar with Java 9
> 
> Emmanuel Bourg

Hi Emmanuel,

That's great!  Please go ahead with your upload.

Thank you,
tony
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