Hooks are started in alphabetical order. The only way to have an ordering dependency between hooks is by choosing their names so that they are ordered correctly. There is currently no priority field or other way to influence this ordering. Contrary to what is customary in some other projects (xorg), the hooks currently distributed do not start their names with two digits, thus name based ordering is about creative phrasing.

Unfortunately, there are quite a few characters in the ASCII table before the period '.'. This means that if we want to to have a hook that is executed after, for instance, 'update-desktop-database.hook' we cannot name it 'update-desktop-database-post.hook', as the dash '-' is ordered before the period '.'. The attached patch changes the ordering of hooks by ignoring the '.hook' suffix.