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.