From 8586a6f40864452978c891e7886be1ced1b0a2e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Floris Lambrechts <florisla@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:46:38 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] Load the README file verbatim, as utf-8 encoded text

---
 setup.py | 13 +++++++------
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5fa8938..5486a61 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -1,13 +1,14 @@
-import re
+import io
+import os
 from setuptools import setup
 
 description = 'Version-bump your software with a single command!'
 
-long_description = re.sub(
-  "\`(.*)\<#.*\>\`\_",
-  r"\1",
-  str(open('README.md', 'rb').read()).replace(description, '')
-)
+# Import the README and use it as the long-description.
+# This requires 'README.md' to be present in MANIFEST.in.
+here = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+with io.open(os.path.join(here, 'README.md'), encoding='utf-8') as f:
+    long_description = '\n' + f.read()
 
 setup(
     name='bump2version',

From cc00ff288f2ccf21a896a00a576c8a5a7c94ab13 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Floris Lambrechts <florisla@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2018 13:47:50 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Set the content type for the long description to
 text/markdown

This requires an up-to-date setuptools; older versions will complain about it
(without crashing).
---
 setup.py | 1 +
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)

diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index 5486a61..ddf09bb 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -20,6 +20,7 @@
     packages=['bumpversion'],
     description=description,
     long_description=long_description,
+    long_description_content_type='text/markdown',
     entry_points={
         'console_scripts': [
             'bumpversion = bumpversion:main',