diff --git a/libIDL.spec b/libIDL.spec
index 25d868e..3168ca7 100644
--- a/libIDL.spec
+++ b/libIDL.spec
@@ -9,9 +9,18 @@ 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
+# Note that upstream is dead; GNOME still offers just a download page, and the
+# VCS was migrated to https://gitlab.gnome.org/Archive/libidl, but the project
+# is archived and therefore no bug tracker is offered. An old email address for
+# the ORBIT development mailing list is offered in the HACKING file, but the
+# archived status of the project shows that nothing will be done with patches.
 # contact is available. Any patches below will therefore not be sent upstream,
-# because there is no obvious way to do so.
+# because there is nowhere for them to go.
+#
+# Normally this would be the time to re-evaluate whether the package still
+# belongs in Fedora, but ORBit2 still requires it, and at least libgnome and
+# libbonobo require that, so it is in the dependency chain of a great many
+# packages.
 
 # Fix paths reported by the libIDL-config-2 tool to conform with Fedora
 # multilib installation paths: