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.