diff --git a/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst b/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
index 936402b..12ee328 100644
--- a/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
+++ b/Doc/distutils/uploading.rst
@@ -74,4 +74,9 @@
 
     $ python setup.py --long-description | rst2html.py > output.html
 
-:mod:`docutils` will display a warning if there's something wrong with your syntax.
+:mod:`docutils` will display a warning if there's something wrong with your
+syntax.  Because PyPI applies additional checks (e.g. by passing ``--no-raw``
+to ``rst2html.py`` in the command above), being able to run the command above
+without warnings does not guarantee that PyPI will convert the content
+successfully.
+