Changing rake task dependencies, runs in wrong order

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I'm confused. I'm trying to alter the dependencies of a premade rake
task, and while it accepts it, it's actully running the dependcy after
the task rather than before it. With this:

  Rake::GemPackageTask.new(spec) do |pkg|
    ...
  end

  # Don't show the clobber task, just always clobber when
  # creating packages. Maybe in future ask to make sure.
  Rake::Task['clobber_package'].comment = nil
  Rake::Task['repackage'].comment = nil
  task :package => [:clobber_package]

Shouldn't it invoke clobber_package BEFORE package? I ran it with --
trace and it's clearly doing the opposite. What's up?

Thanks,
T.