diff --git a/devel/arduino-avrdude/pkg-descr b/devel/arduino-avrdude/pkg-descr
index c50e3af49b34..d1110a17728e 100644
--- a/devel/arduino-avrdude/pkg-descr
+++ b/devel/arduino-avrdude/pkg-descr
@@ -3,4 +3,7 @@ flash, eeprom, and fuse bit memories of Atmel AVR microcontrollers.
 It operates with several programmers including STK500 and most
 directly connect parallel port style programmers.
 
+This is a version of AVRDUDE with patches from the Arduino project
+that haven't been sent upstream applied to it.
+
 WWW: http://www.nongnu.org/avrdude/