--- a/HISTORY
+++ b/HISTORY
@@ -4,3 +4,6 @@
 Distribution file sets include release notes for their version and preceding
 versions.  Unpack the file doc/postgres.tar.gz, then visit the contained
 file release.html in an HTML browser.
+
+On Debian systems, the release notes are contained in the postgresql-doc-*
+packages, located in /usr/share/doc/postgresql-doc-*/html/release.html.
