diff --git a/py/misc/testing/test_initpkg.py b/py/misc/testing/test_initpkg.py
index d509bb6ca..015b64be8 100644
--- a/py/misc/testing/test_initpkg.py
+++ b/py/misc/testing/test_initpkg.py
@@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ class TestRealModule:
 #    #assert False
 
 def test_url_of_version():
-    py.test.skip("FAILING!")
+    py.test.skip("FAILING! - provide a proper URL or upload pylib tgz")
     from urllib import URLopener
     URLopener().open(py.__package__.download_url)