Re: Name dtache.el

[Niklas Eklund <niklas.eklund@posteo.net>]

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Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>>> So your proposal would be to:
>>> 1) Create a new git repository for detached.el
>>> 2) Add this package to ELPA
>>> 3) Release a new version detached.el
>>> 4) Update the original dtache package to require detached
>>> 5) Make a new release of dtache
>
> Yup.

Great

>> Ah ok you meant adding a line similar to this one in dtache.el?
>>
>> ;; Package-Requires: ((company "0.8.0") (math-symbol-lists "1.3"))
>
> Yes.
>
Roger that!

>> Seems like a smart way to communicate to users that they need to install detached.el
>
> This way they'll "automatically" be moved to `detached.el`.

Sounds great.

> It's not quite right because `detached.el` will be considered as
> "automatically added" so `package-autoremove` might do the wrong thing,
> but I think it's currently as close as we can get to the ideal.

Alright, let's hope for the best then :)

Here is a patch adding detached.el to the list of packages.


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From 084f3c644ce90767173c22fa49d07feaf5c1ca09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Niklas Eklund <niklas.eklund@posteo.net>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 23:16:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] * elpa-packages (dtache): Add detached.el

The dtache package has been renamed to detached. This patch adds the
renamed package to the list of elpa packages.

The dtache package will remain for now and detached will be added as a
required package to it.
---
 elpa-packages | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/elpa-packages b/elpa-packages
index ac322f4cc4..6bfd4d7cfa 100644
--- a/elpa-packages
+++ b/elpa-packages
@@ -175,6 +175,9 @@
   :auto-sync t)
  ("devdocs"		:url "https://github.com/astoff/devdocs.el"
   :auto-sync t)
+ ("detached"		:url "https://git.sr.ht/~niklaseklund/detached.el"
+  :news "CHANGELOG.org"
+  :auto-sync t)
  ("dict-tree"		:url "http://www.dr-qubit.org/git/predictive.git")
  ("diffview"            :url "https://github.com/mgalgs/diffview-mode.git")
  ("diff-hl"
-- 
2.34.0


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/Niklas