From 6280aa664398ad5f38ed91e2cc045178be612303 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Markus Unterwaditzer <markus@unterwaditzer.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2017 17:46:12 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Update contributing.rst

---
 docs/contributing.rst | 6 ++++--
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/contributing.rst b/docs/contributing.rst
index bec000b..f40e6ca 100644
--- a/docs/contributing.rst
+++ b/docs/contributing.rst
@@ -39,8 +39,10 @@ Reporting bugs
 
 * Make sure your problem isn't already listed in :doc:`problems`.
 
-* Make sure you have the latest version by executing ``pip install --user
-  --upgrade vdirsyncer``.
+* Make sure you have the absolutely latest version of vdirsyncer. For users of
+  some Linux distributions such as Debian or Fedora this may not be the version
+  that your distro offers. In those cases please file a bug against the distro
+  package, not against upstream vdirsyncer.
 
 * Use ``--verbosity=DEBUG`` when including output from vdirsyncer.