diff --git a/Changes b/Changes
index d27273ee9..3ed98969e 100644
--- a/Changes
+++ b/Changes
@@ -16,6 +16,11 @@ Apologies if I missed anyone!
 Global changes
 --------------
 
+The POSIX.1 man pages (sections 0p, 1p, 3p) have been moved out
+of this package into the separate man-pages-posix package.
+This made sense because those pages are seldom changed (only formatting
+fixes, etc.) so that it was unnecessary to redistribute them with each
+man-pages release.
 
 New pages
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diff --git a/README b/README
index 94d5d5835..3f06a5ed0 100644
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
-This package contains Linux man pages for all sections
-except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
+This package contains Linux man pages for sections
+2, 3, 4, 5, and 7. Some more information is given in the
 `Announce' file.
 
 Install by copying to your favourite location.