diff --git a/doc/submitting-changes.xml b/doc/submitting-changes.xml
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--- a/doc/submitting-changes.xml
+++ b/doc/submitting-changes.xml
@@ -270,7 +270,7 @@ Additional information.
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-<para>If staging is already in a broken state, please refrain from adding extra new breakages. Stabilize it for a few days, merge into master, then resume development on staging. <link xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging#tabs-evaluations">Keep an eye on the staging evaluations here</link>.</para>
+<para>If staging is already in a broken state, please refrain from adding extra new breakages. Stabilize it for a few days, merge into master, then resume development on staging. <link xlink:href="http://hydra.nixos.org/jobset/nixpkgs/staging#tabs-evaluations">Keep an eye on the staging evaluations here</link>. If any fixes for staging happen to be already in master, then master can be merged into staging.</para>
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