diff --git a/Makefile.am b/Makefile.am
index 179eaab684634ed26e70dbd9c668757391422520..08721db47a3af115574f173c72b5c398b8b59cf5 100644
--- a/Makefile.am
+++ b/Makefile.am
@@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ AUTOMAKE_OPTIONS	= foreign no-dependencies
 SUBDIRS			= src man doc tests debian
 dist_pkgdata_DATA	= config/* xsl/sextractor.xsl
 EXTRA_DIST		= autogen.sh AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog COPYRIGHT \
-			  HISTORY INSTALL LICENSE README THANKS
+			  HISTORY INSTALL LICENSE README.md THANKS
 RPM_ROOTDIR		= `rpmbuild --nobuild -E %_topdir`
 RPM_SRCDIR		= $(RPM_ROOTDIR)/SOURCES
 DEB_SRCDIR		= ~/DEBIAN/SOURCES
diff --git a/README b/README.md
similarity index 100%
rename from README
rename to README.md
diff --git a/sextractor.spec.in b/sextractor.spec.in
index cd51d2000ec564a0538dc9c0a41bc88b8a65edc1..df5abf65a09a5a5319f3acd76c96a45a59aadb6f 100644
--- a/sextractor.spec.in
+++ b/sextractor.spec.in
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
 
 %files
 %defattr(-,root,root)
-%doc config AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog COPYRIGHT HISTORY INSTALL LICENSE README.md THANKSf
+%doc config AUTHORS BUGS ChangeLog COPYRIGHT HISTORY INSTALL LICENSE README.md THANKS
 %{_bindir}/sex
 %{_bindir}/ldactoasc
 %{_mandir}/man1/sex.1*