dotspacemacs-adiitional-packages: how to define dependency for a recipe with :fetcher Github?

[khalidrafi6]

I have the following in dotspacemacs-additional-packages:

                                        (alert
                                         :location (recipe
                                                    :fetcher github
                                                    :repo "khalidrafi6/alert"
                                                    ))
                                        (org-alert
                                         :location (recipe
                                                    :fetcher github
                                                    :repo "khalidrafi6/org-alert"
                                                    ))

Here org-alert depends on alert. But, Spacemacs installs the dependency directly from jwiegley/alert which is surprising as it is nowhere mentioned in the org-alert repository. When I delete the package and restart, only then it would install from my specified sources. What is the correct way to deal with this?

[fnussbaum]

This seems to be the case because we install packages in reverse alphabetical order. It might be better to make Spacemacs install them in the order in which they are declared, at least for dotspacemacs-additional-packages. I'll look into it.