[debhelper-devel] Bug#733045: Bug#733045: debhelper: Can debhelper make autotools-dev updating default behaviour?

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2013, Joey Hess wrote:
> Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Dec 2013, Wookey wrote:
> > > 2) for dh packages:
> > > adding --with autotools-dev to the dh invocation
> > 
> > This is broken.  debhelper modules are not allowed to use "-" in the name,
> > the correct module name is "autotools_dev" as stated in the documentation.
> > 
> > Yeah, this is annoying, and a large pitfall.
> > 
> > OTOH, anyone who suddenly notices his package had this bug, please take a
> > moment to think about how it happened to pass that you never noticed your
> > package build was not doing what you wanted it to...
> 
> dh automatically fixes up dh-foo to dh_foo.

Hmm? That's interesting, given that bug report I was cc'd (and which I later
cc'd you asking about the -/_ thing) complaining that dh-autotools-dev-foo
was not working because of that -/_ mismatch.

Is the -/_ fixup a long time feature of dh, already supported by stable's
debhelper?

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