[debhelper-devel] Bug#737635: debhelper: dh should reject wrong stuff like "dh clean with dh-autoreconf"

[Julian Andres Klode]

Package: debhelper
Version: 9.20131227
Severity: normal

If you specify a sequence first, and then other names after it, they
are silently ignored. They should cause an error, we don't want people
to accidently write
	dh $@ with something
instead of
	dh $@ --with something
without noticing.

In the case we had in #debian-mentors today, there was a
	dh $@ with dh-autoreconf
which is obviously wrong (both option wise and addon-name
wise), but it did not produce any error.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: jessie/sid
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (980, 'unstable'), (500, 'unstable'), (100, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.12-1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.utf8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  binutils    2.24-3
ii  dpkg        1.17.6
ii  dpkg-dev    1.17.6
ii  file        1:5.14-2
ii  man-db      2.6.6-1
ii  perl        5.18.2-2
ii  po-debconf  1.0.16+nmu2

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
Julian Andres Klode  - Debian Developer, Ubuntu Member

See http://wiki.debian.org/JulianAndresKlode and http://jak-linux.org/.

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