diff --git a/libIDL.spec b/libIDL.spec
index 1ce5601..446667e 100644
--- a/libIDL.spec
+++ b/libIDL.spec
@@ -9,6 +9,10 @@ URL:            https://download.gnome.org/sources/%{name}/%{minorversion}/
 Source:         %{url}/%{name}-%{version}.tar.bz2
 License:        LGPLv2+
 
+# Note that upstream is just a download page; no bug tracker or even email
+# contact is available. Any patches below will therefore not be sent upstream,
+# because there is no obvious way to do so.
+
 # Fix paths reported by the libIDL-config-2 tool to conform with Fedora
 # multilib installation paths:
 Patch0:         %{name}-0.8.6-multilib.patch