Bug#731248: please add a check to check for the wrong --with autotools-dev

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 03 Dec 2013, Joey Hess wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > (cc'ing the debhelper maintaner to get an authoritative answer about whether
> > a dh module can have a "-" in the name or not).
> 
> It's a perl module, and AFAIK you cannot have a dash in the name of a
> perl module.
> 
> joey@darkstar:~>perl -e 'use Foo::Bar-Baz'
> Can't locate Foo/Bar.pm in @INC (you may need to install the Foo::Bar module) (@INC contains: /etc/perl /usr/local/lib/perl/5.18.1 /usr/local/share/perl/5.18.1 /usr/lib/perl5 /usr/share/perl5 /usr/lib/perl/5.18 /usr/share/perl/5.18 /usr/local/lib/site_perl .) at -e line 1.

Thanks for the quick reply, Joey!

Is there aliasing support in dh that I could use to ask it to load
"autotools_dev" if the user asks for "autotools-dev" somehow?

The big issue is that currently, the builds break silently (don't update
config.sub/guess) and proceed using the outdated config.sub/guess.  People
just don't pay attention to even notice their build has never worked right
in the first place :-(

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  Henrique Holschuh