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

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh]

On Tue, 24 Dec 2013, Julien Cristau wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 24, 2013 at 15:15:13 -0200, 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.
> > 
> Says who?  As a random example,

doko did, bug report #731248.  Someone had already closed the bug through
-done stating "not a bug", but I was obviously left out of the loop by that.

I requested more details from doko, but Joey is in a better position to tell
us whether it is a valid concern or not for old versions of dh/debhelper.

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