I haven't seen this one before...
<copy todir="${dirs.build}/etc/" overwrite="true">
<property name="nginx_fstab" value="#"/>
<filterchain>
<expandproperties />
</filterchain>
<fileset dir="${dirs.files}/debian/etc/">
<include name="etc/network/interfaces"/>
<include name="inittab"/>
<include name="rc.local"/>
<include name="sysctl.conf"/>
<include name="fstab"/>
<include name="vz/conf/777.conf"/>
</fileset>
</copy>
If I remove:
<property name="nginx_fstab" value="#"/>
it works OK.