[pca] confirming the validiting of a home grown patch_order file

[Martin Paul]

Thomas Gouverneur wrote:
>  - I've fixed the header for PCA to admit the date parsing (i hope at
>    least ;))

Nearly :) You should replace month numbers by their 3-letter-abbreviations in 
the date (01 -> Jan, 02 -> Feb,Mar,Apr,May,Jun,Jul,Aug,Sep,Oct,Nov,Dec).

>  - I've also fixed the multiple-release present, it now take the
>    biggest release of a patch present into every dependancy.

Yes, the number of patches in the generated xref file has now been reduced.

> So, whenever there is a bad patch, should I look at the first upper
> revision which is not a bad patch ? is it safe to do that ?

Yes, that's what I'd do.

> Any other remark ?

I still see "empty" patch lines. E.g. in the xref file generated for a list with 
  only patch 148301-01 on it, the resulting xref file contains:

   125369|05|Jan/01/70| | | |  ||||
   125547|01|Jan/01/70| | | |  ||||

There's also:

   123839|01|Jan/01/70| | | |  ||||

which wouldn't have to be included anyway, as it is obsoleted by 126897-02, 
which is included due to some other dependency requirement.

Martin.