The long description was originally Markdown, and converted to RST by pandoc. I would 100% understand if this conversion triggered some bug.
It's a good idea to run docutils on it yourself -- but in any case, broken RST has always resulted in plain text rendering on PyPi in the past -- as it should.
-CHB
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