Updated README.md to acknowledge upstream

Author: tim-littlefair

README.md

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+# Tim Littlefair's Python Package Template
+
+This repository was cloned in November 2025 from:
+https://github.com/microsoft/python-package-template
+
+The upstream repository has not been updated since 2023 and may be abandoned.
+In this clone, I integrated all outstanding dependabot pull requests up to 
+November 2025.
+
+I plan to use this as a template for one or more Python packages I am 
+considering submitting to or updating at PyPi.
+
+As well as updating dependencies, I have also disabled three of the GitHub 
+actions configured in the outdated upstream template which use secret tokens 
+to automate to integration to with non-repository services (including GitHub 
+itself and PyPi).
+For the time being I don't wish to automate these integrations but 
+will consider re-enabling them if and when I am ready to publish my 
+downstream changes.
+
+The remainder of this file consists of the original text of README.md in 
+the upstream repository.
+
+
 # Python Project Template
 
 This project is a template for creating Python projects that follows the Python Standards declared in PEP 621. It uses a pyproject.yaml file to configure the project and Flit to simplify the build process and publish to PyPI. Flit simplifies the build and packaging process for Python projects by eliminating the need for separate setup.py and setup.cfg files. With Flit, you can manage all relevant configurations within the pyproject.toml file, streamlining development and promoting maintainability by centralizing project metadata, dependencies, and build specifications in one place.