diff --git a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
index 34fc008a58a..1cf8a6ea56b 100644
--- a/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
+++ b/Lib/distutils/__init__.py
@@ -12,13 +12,8 @@ __revision__ = "$Id$"
 
 # Distutils version
 #
-# Please coordinate with Marc-Andre Lemburg <mal@egenix.com> when adding
-# new features to distutils that would warrant bumping the version number.
+# Updated automatically by the Python release process.
 #
-# In general, major and minor version should loosely follow the Python
-# version number the distutils code was shipped with.
-#
-
 #--start constants--
 __version__ = "3.1a0"
 #--end constants--