diff --git a/api/types/fix.go b/api/types/fix.go
index ed386a133..de70467ed 100644
--- a/api/types/fix.go
+++ b/api/types/fix.go
@@ -14,8 +14,7 @@ import (
 // new field names.
 func FixKustomizationPreUnmarshalling(data []byte) ([]byte, error) {
 	deprecatedFieldsMap := map[string]string{
-		"imageTags:":      "images:",
-		"patchesJson6902": "patches",
+		"imageTags:": "images:",
 	}
 	for oldname, newname := range deprecatedFieldsMap {
 		pattern := regexp.MustCompile(oldname)
diff --git a/kustomize/internal/commands/kustfile/kustomizationfile.go b/kustomize/internal/commands/kustfile/kustomizationfile.go
index b7b34f99e..f347e368a 100644
--- a/kustomize/internal/commands/kustfile/kustomizationfile.go
+++ b/kustomize/internal/commands/kustfile/kustomizationfile.go
@@ -47,6 +47,7 @@ func determineFieldOrder() []string {
 		"CommonLabels",
 		"CommonAnnotations",
 		"PatchesStrategicMerge",
+		"PatchesJson6902",
 		"Patches",
 		"ConfigMapGenerator",
 		"SecretGenerator",