Xiyue Deng <[email protected]> writes: > As a preliminary thought, I think a better place to add Debian specific > instruction is probably the README.Debian file, which is a natural place > for Debian specific information, and avoids the previous mentioned > downsides by not touching upstream files.
This was my first thought also. > We may also make it a template and generate the installation, removal, > and bug reporting sections if desired. I understand that some > packages already make use of this file for package specific > instructions, so this would need some care to avoid any conflicts. I think it will probably cause a few problems (maybe fixable, but I don't know how others feel about this) to automatically update README.Debian. This is already pretty widely in use in Debian at large (I did not count within the team).
