first use something like that to teach Gradle that

-debug

and

-release

can't be used at the same time

then if you create a project with debug and release variants, each depending on the correct library variant, you can use that as your dependency, and anything that goes wrong will be caught

Found a solution for this:

allprojects {
    configurations.all {
        resolutionStrategy.dependencySubstitution {
            val substitutions = this
            substitutions.all {
                val dependency = this
                (dependency.requested as? ModuleComponentSelector)?.let {
                    if (it.group == "com.example") {
                        val buildType = attributes.getAttribute(BuildTypeAttr.ATTRIBUTE).toString()
                        val newModule = "${it.module}-$buildType"
                        dependency.useTarget(module("${it.group}:$newModule:${it.version}"))
                    }
                }
            }
        }
    }
}