diff --git a/Doc/dist/dist.tex b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
index db4f16567863..da9341e76394 100644
--- a/Doc/dist/dist.tex
+++ b/Doc/dist/dist.tex
@@ -1014,6 +1014,7 @@ into the source distribution:
 \item all C source files mentioned in the \option{ext\_modules} or
   \option{libraries} options (\XXX{getting C library sources currently
     broken---no \method{get_source_files()} method in \file{build_clib.py}!})
+\item scripts identified by the \option{scripts} option
 \item anything that looks like a test script: \file{test/test*.py}
   (currently, the Distutils don't do anything with test scripts except
   include them in source distributions, but in the future there will be