[Fedora-packaging] README.Dist is preferrable to README.Fedora

[Paul Howarth]

On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:42 +0200
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora at leemhuis.info> wrote:

> On 25.10.2008 15:47, Patrice Dumas wrote:
> > 
> > In
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines#Summary_and_description
> > 
> > I suggest changing README.Fedora to README.Dist, see for an
> > argumentation:
> > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Packaging_Tricks#Avoiding_using_fedora_or_redhat
> 
> I really appreciate the general idea, but I don't like the term
> ".Dist" to much, as it is a bit misleading imho: some people might
> think that file might contain "informations relevant for distribution
> of the package".
> 
> I thought about a alternative, but all my mind came up with was 
> "distribution-specific-notes" -- that has the same problem as noted 
> above, but it's imho not that worse. But that filename is quite
> long :-/
> 
> Maybe somebody else comes up with something that is shorter and more 
> accurate...

I tend to use "README.RPM" or some variant thereof (e.g.
README-SELinux.RPM).

Paul.