diff --git a/debuild/Makefile b/debuild/Makefile
index 9359cea82ff29454e7420dd9067f4c678577ec5b..75f89503a8569414599f823e6a8e9925c11b6443 100644
--- a/debuild/Makefile
+++ b/debuild/Makefile
@@ -115,9 +115,8 @@ $(debsrc):
 # version is generated using git which can't be done outside the git repo).
 	sed 's|^\(#define PD_BUILD_VERSION "\).*"|\1$(PD_BUILD_VERSION)"|' ../pd/src/s_version.h.in > $(debdist)/pd/src/s_version.h
 # Pre-generate the markdown and html docs so that they will be included in the
-# source. This means that we don't need pandoc as a build dependency, which
-# makes live a lot easier since the pandoc versions on older Debian/Ubuntu
-# releases are quite ancient.
+# source. This means that we don't need any special tools as a build
+# dependency, which makes live a lot easier.
 	make -C ../packages/gendoc version="$(PD_L2ORK_VERSION)" build_version="$(PD_BUILD_VERSION)"
 	mv ../packages/gendoc/*-Linux* $(debdist)/packages/gendoc
 	make -C ../packages/gendoc clean
diff --git a/packages/Makefile b/packages/Makefile
index 0cd93a968f31757e7a94801639c3b7677534e539..94bfe7b5648a26c76be88b764028fb7187b84612 100644
--- a/packages/Makefile
+++ b/packages/Makefile
@@ -236,9 +236,10 @@ license_install:
 
 
 # AG: Replaced the previous jumble of echo commands with document generation
-# from Markdown using awk for preprocessing and pandoc for formatting. Also
-# updated the document content which was really outdated. You can find all
-# this stuff including the Markdown source in the gendoc subdirectory.
+# from Markdown using awk for preprocessing and python-markdown for
+# formatting. Also updated the document content which was really outdated. You
+# can find all this stuff including the Markdown source in the gendoc
+# subdirectory.
 
 osname = $(shell uname -s|sed 's/\([[:alpha:]]*\).*/\1/')
 
@@ -317,7 +318,7 @@ abstractions_clean:
 doc_clean:
 # These are precious, don't clean them! Otherwise pre-generated docs will be
 # removed before the build starts, and the build system may not have the
-# required tools (i.e., pandoc) installed to re-generate them.
+# required tools installed to re-generate them.
 #	$(MAKE) -C gendoc clean
 
 externals_clean: