diff --git a/test/test_acceptance.ml b/test/test_acceptance.ml
index 7779c2c..3a6e530 100644
--- a/test/test_acceptance.ml
+++ b/test/test_acceptance.ml
@@ -1116,9 +1116,12 @@ let () =
        package it came back to. *)
     (* And the same rule through a chain, which is the case that only exists
        once a package may import a package: area imports shape as [shape] and
-       the program imports the same directory as [sh]. The refusal has to point
-       at the package's own import line, since that is the half the person
-       reading the entry file cannot see. *)
+       the program imports the same directory as [sh]. Which of the two lines
+       the message names is whichever one arrived second, so it depends on the
+       order the entry file writes its imports in; both are correct refusals
+       and the needle deliberately does not pin it down. What is being tested
+       is that the clash is caught at all when the two halves are a page and a
+       directory apart, rather than side by side as in the case above. *)
     refuses "one directory under two aliases, through a package"
       "programs/pkg-alias-clash.flan" "one directory is one set of names";
     (* A ring is refused and the ring is named. The needle is the chain, not