diff --git a/doc/BINPKG_INFO b/doc/BINPKG_INFO
index 0c23d55f..b9eff4e3 100644
--- a/doc/BINPKG_INFO
+++ b/doc/BINPKG_INFO
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
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 A binary package built with xbps is a normal tar(1) archive, compressed
-with bzip2 and has the following structure:
+with any of the formats that libarchive supports, and it has the following
+structure:
 
 	Package metadata
 	-----------------