Github user fhueske commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/flink/pull/5897
Thanks, @StephanEwen.
I will later merge this for `release-1.4` and `release-1.5`. Should we
merge it for `master` as well and create a JIRA to drop the deprecated code?
That would ensure we have the fix in 1.6 as well in case we don't drop the code
for whatever reason.---
