On Mon, Nov 18, 2024 at 11:01:56PM -0800, Otto Kekäläinen wrote: > Package: debian-policy > Found: 4.7.0.1 > > Currently > https://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-source.html#source-package-handling-debian-readme-source > talks about `README.source`. > > I suggest we would allow this file to alternatively be in Markdown > format, and spell the filename as `README.source(.md)`. > > The suffix is relevant as many tools recognize the file as Markdown > based on the suffix and will only render it correctly with the suffix. > I am proposing Markdown specifically as it has become an industry > standard for ASCII markup and use on README.md files is very common.
Are there tools that automatically locate README.source and would need to be adapted to find README.source.md instead ? Cheers, -- Bill. <ballo...@debian.org> Imagine a large red swirl here.
