[Pkg-octave-devel] Numbering/naming patches

[Thomas Weber <thomas.weber.mail@gmail.com>]

Hi, 

I just stumbled across a problem where we should probably agree on a
common scheme.

Octaviz currently has the following patches (only first letters are
important):

	cast-pointer-long.patch  
	liboctaviz-version-independent.patch
	texinfo-docstring.patch

I wanted to add 
	ignore-deprecated.patch

This would modify some lines of liboctaviz-version-independent.patch
(not the actual patch itself, but some lines it uses for referencing).

The order of the patches is taken alphabetically, which means that after
the i.. patch, the l.. patch fails. 

The fix for me is obvious (renaming the new patch), but should we start
numbering the patches to force a certain order (and do this as a general
rule)?

Please note that I did use cdbs-edit-patch, but it honors the name of
the patch and only applies the c.. patch.

	Thomas