Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-22 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
> FWIW: On my KDE system, ``README.source`` gets opened in Kate, while a > file ending with ``.md`` gets opened in Okular, which renders Markdown. Like wise with both Bat (rust) and Glow (go), the most popular command-line "colorized" viewers: only files ending with .md will be correctly rendered

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-20 Thread gregor herrmann
On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:57 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 06:29:25PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > > On the other hand, is there much benefit? People used to typing > > 'less debian/README.source' would need to retrain their fingers. > This is my concern too: > the whole

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-20 Thread Diederik de Haas
On Tue Nov 19, 2024 at 1:12 PM CET, gregor herrmann wrote: > On Tue, 19 Nov 2024 12:37:57 +0100, Bill Allombert wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 06:29:25PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > > > On the other hand, is there much benefit? People used to typing > > > 'less debian/README.source' would n

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-20 Thread Bill Allombert
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

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-19 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
Hi! > Are there tools that automatically locate README.source and would need to be > adapted to > find README.source.md instead ? Not to my knowledge. This file is consumed by humans / Debian maintainers to learn about the source package. Most likely it is accessed by typing $EDITOR debian/READM

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-19 Thread Bill Allombert
On Tue, Nov 19, 2024 at 06:29:25PM +0800, Sean Whitton wrote: > Hello, > > On Mon 18 Nov 2024 at 11:01pm -08, 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-

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-19 Thread Sean Whitton
Hello, On Mon 18 Nov 2024 at 11:01pm -08, 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

Bug#1087820: debian-policy: allows README.source.md alternatively

2024-11-18 Thread Otto Kekäläinen
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(.m