On Saturday 25 October 2008, Paul Howarth wrote:
On Sat, 25 Oct 2008 16:53:42 +0200
Thorsten Leemhuis <fedora(a)leemhuis.info> wrote:
> 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).
.RPM sounds a bit like it could be a rpm package whose name is README. I've
usually used README.package myself.