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-swh-dataset
-===========
-
-Public datasets produced and released by `Software Heritage`_.
-
-.. _Software Heritage: https://www.softwareheritage.org
diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst
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@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+.. _swh-dataset:
+
+Software Heritage Datasets
+==========================
+
+This page lists the different public datasets and periodic data dumps of the
+archive produced and released by `Software Heritage`_.
+
+.. _Software Heritage: https://www.softwareheritage.org
diff --git a/docs/README.rst b/docs/README.rst
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+../README.rst
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/docs/index.rst b/docs/index.rst
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+++ b/docs/index.rst
@@ -1,10 +1,4 @@
-.. _swh-dataset:
-
-Software Heritage Datasets
-==========================
-
-This page lists the different public datasets and periodic data dumps of the
-archive published by Software Heritage.
+.. include:: README.rst
 
 :ref:`The Software Heritage Graph Dataset <swh-graph-dataset>`
     the entire graph of Software Heritage in a fully-deduplicated Merkle DAG
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 here = path.abspath(path.dirname(__file__))
 
 # Get the long description from the README file
-with open(path.join(here, "README.md"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
+with open(path.join(here, "README.rst"), encoding="utf-8") as f:
     long_description = f.read()
 
 
@@ -39,7 +39,7 @@
     name="swh.dataset",
     description="Software Heritage dataset tools",
     long_description=long_description,
-    long_description_content_type="text/markdown",
+    long_description_content_type="text/x-rst",
     author="Software Heritage developers",
     author_email="swh-devel@inria.fr",
     url="https://forge.softwareheritage.org/source/swh-dataset/",