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diff --git a/bpkg/rep-fetch.cxx b/bpkg/rep-fetch.cxx
index a9886d6..d02a064 100644
--- a/bpkg/rep-fetch.cxx
+++ b/bpkg/rep-fetch.cxx
@@ -1636,6 +1636,13 @@ namespace bpkg
// Go through the available packages that have external tests and add
// them as the special test dependencies to these test packages.
//
+ // Note that not being able to resolve the test package for a main
+ // package is not an error, since the test package absence doesn't
+ // affect the main package building and internal testing. Dropping of an
+ // external test package from a repository may, however, be intentional.
+ // Think of a private repository crafted as a subset of some public
+ // repository with the external examples packages omitted.
+ //
for (const auto& am: db.query<available_main> ())
{
const shared_ptr<available_package>& p (am.package);