On Tue, May 27, 2003 at 08:16:59PM +1000, Russell Coker wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2003 19:04, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > > > Here I suppose the pre-patch is supposed to be applied first, and then > > > the application of the debian patch would only trigger application of > > > those dependant patches not provided by the pre-patch. > > > > The order in which the patches are applied should in general not be > > significant. If it is, it should be stated in the patch description. I > > assumed that the 'Depends' tag is semantically more a 'Pre-Depends', > > right? > > It's fairly rare for a patch to depend on another patch without any order > dependency.
Why don't we use a scheme similar to what xfree86 use for its patches. Sure we would need to adapt it as the patches are distributed, but we could well do it. Friendly, Sven Luther