Please add package alias for autoreconf

[Jeffrey Walton]

While trying to configure QEMU, I received the error:

    (cd .../qemu-2.1.1/pixman; autoreconf -v --install)
    /bin/sh: 1: autoreconf: not found
    make: *** [.../qemu-2.1.1/pixman/configure] Error 127

I thought it would be easy to solve:

    sudo apt-get install autoreconf
    Reading package lists... Done
    Building dependency tree
    Reading state information... Done
    E: Unable to locate package autoreconf

Fortunately, I came across others who had the same problem. The problem seems to be with the package name. There's nothing intuitive about "dh-autoreconf".

Please create an alias for "dh-autoreconf".

[Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton)]

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[Jeffrey Walton (noloader)]

Does this god damn database of packages even work? I search for a package, I get a package name, and then select it. When I try to save it, I get "There is 1 error in the data you entered. Please fix it and try again."

[Brian Murray (brian-murray)]

Could you elaborate on where you obtained qemu from and the command you were trying to run? It seems to me that if qemu is using autoreconf it should depend on the package which provides it.

[Julian Andres Klode (juliank)]

This does not even matter, Brian. The bug is invalid.

(a) autoreconf is provided by autoconf (and the name sort of implies that, it re-runs autoconf)
(b) APT does not have any sort of alias database, it uses package provides
(c) It does not make sense to provide autoreconf from autoconf, as everyone using autotools should know that autoreconf is part of autoconf.