How should validate-modules sanity test treat module_utils in collections?

[webknjaz]

SUMMARY

When a module in a collection contains something like from ansible_collections.new_azure_order.azure.plugins.module_utils.azure_rm_common import AzureRMModuleBase, sanity tests report:

ERROR: Found 1 validate-modules issue(s) which need to be resolved:
ERROR: plugins/modules/azure_rm_webappslot.py:0:0: missing-module-utils-import: Did not find a module_utils import

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[sivel]

We'll likely just need to toggle different logic when self.collection at the following place in the code

ansible/test/lib/ansible_test/_data/sanity/validate-modules/validate_modules/main.py

Line 489 in 48a39f5

if [n for n in names if n.startswith('ansible.module_utils')]:

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[rambleraptor]

Running into this same issue with the Google collection!

[mattclay]

Resolved by #63932