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@@ -21,6 +21,9 @@ To add your package you can edit [`build-constraints.yaml`](https://github.com/f
 
 If your library depends on a C library, please add it to the `debian-bootstrap.sh` script.
 
+Any dependencies of your packages that are not already part of stackage are added implictly, but it is prefered
+to add all packages explicitly. It is planned to remove this behaviour in the future.
+
 After doing that commit with a message like "add foo-bar" and send a pull request.
 
 The continuous integration job will do some checks to see if your package's dependencies are up-to-date.