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-rw-r--r--nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix5
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diff --git a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
index c4a4c497cedf..98746968146d 100644
--- a/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
+++ b/nixpkgs/pkgs/development/libraries/zlib/default.nix
@@ -12,6 +12,11 @@
 , splitStaticOutput ? static
 }:
 
+# Note: this package is used for bootstrapping fetchurl, and thus
+# cannot use fetchpatch! All mutable patches (generated by GitHub or
+# cgit) that are needed here should be included directly in Nixpkgs as
+# files.
+
 assert splitStaticOutput -> static;
 
 stdenv.mkDerivation (rec {