[debhelper-devel] Bug#838538: dh_installdocs: look for README.foo

[Sean Whitton]

Package: debhelper
Version: 10
Severity: wishlist

Dear maintainers,

Lots of upstreams include a readme called 'README.md', 'README.rst',
'README.markdown' etc., rather than just 'README'.  It would be nice if
dh_installdocs would install these automatically, as it currently
installs plain 'README'.

Markdown and reStructuredText are designed to be readable without
knowledge of the markup language, so these files are equally suitable
for installation to /usr/share/doc/*/.

Thanks.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: stretch/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (900, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 4.6.0-1-686-pae (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.utf8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.utf8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system)

Versions of packages debhelper depends on:
ii  autotools-dev            20160430.1
ii  binutils                 2.26.1-1
ii  dh-autoreconf            12
ii  dh-strip-nondeterminism  0.023-2
ii  dpkg                     1.18.10
ii  dpkg-dev                 1.18.10
ii  file                     1:5.28-4
ii  libdpkg-perl             1.18.10
ii  man-db                   2.7.5-1
ii  perl                     5.22.2-5
ii  po-debconf               1.0.19

debhelper recommends no packages.

Versions of packages debhelper suggests:
pn  dh-make  <none>

-- no debconf information

-- 
Sean Whitton