diff --git a/ares/ares_private.h b/ares/ares_private.h
index c84a1d0b33..794844039a 100644
--- a/ares/ares_private.h
+++ b/ares/ares_private.h
@@ -340,8 +340,8 @@ long ares__tvdiff(struct timeval t1, struct timeval t2);
 #ifdef CURLDEBUG
 /* This is low-level hard-hacking memory leak tracking and similar. Using the
    libcurl lowlevel code from within library is ugly and only works when
-   c-ares is built and linked with a similarly debug-build libcurl, but we do
-   this anyway for convenience. */
+   c-ares is built and linked with a similarly curldebug-enabled libcurl,
+   but we do this anyway for convenience. */
 #include "../lib/memdebug.h"
 #endif