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



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 need to retrain their fingers.
> > This is my concern too:
> > the whole point of this policy is to specify the filename.
> > Beside this file is only useful in limited circumstances which are less
> > and less frequent due to improvement to dpkg and uupdate. It is unclear
> > why anyone would need markdown for it.
>
> I guess Otto was thinkig about Gitlab/salsa which renders markdown
> automatically.

FWIW: On my KDE system, ``README.source`` gets opened in Kate, while a
file ending with ``.md`` gets opened in Okular, which renders Markdown.

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