Bug#199838: xfree86: 4.2.1-9 src fails to build

[Jezuch <jezuch@interia.pl>]

Użytkownik Branden Robinson napisał:
> > I tried to remove 001b_m68k_haslinuxinput_too.diff as I have not a m68k 
> > architecture. It failed again apply some patches, you will find 
> > attached the .log of these patches.
>
> I cannot reproduce this problem; nor could the approximately 10
> autobuilders that compiled this same package from source.

I can reproduce this bug. And I have a solution.
debian/scripts/patch.apply reads:

for f in $(find debian/patches \( -type f -or -type l \) -not -name "*~" | 
sort); do

This is supposed to list patches to apply in corect order. But sort puts 
001_linux_cf.diff *after* 001a_* and 001b_* (it should be applied first). My 
solution was to rename 001b->001c, 001a->001b and 001->001a. It seems that 
this fixed the problem.
I suppose this is sort's bug. I am using sort from coreutils 5.0-4 (from 
sarge/sid). I didn't try to downgrade to version from stable.
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