"Philip Kaludercic" writes: > > All I have been providing are a few optional suggestions and giving you > information you might or might not know, you are the best judge of what > you want the package to look like. If you say you want a > "description.txt" file to contain a description of the package, that is > absolutely fine. Another option is just a plain "README" file, without > any extension. ELPA detects these by default, so the package > specification wouldn't have to list it. And I thank you for that! At the end I think if ELPA extracts the readme for C-h P etc. from the Commentary section, that's all that is needed. So I removed the :readme value altogether and leave it at the Commentary, as you suggested.