diff --git a/package/icu/icu.mk b/package/icu/icu.mk
index ee1ede6f2c..9b97011f55 100644
--- a/package/icu/icu.mk
+++ b/package/icu/icu.mk
@@ -4,9 +4,6 @@
 #
 ################################################################################
 
-# Git tags (and therefore versions on release-monitoring.org) use the
-# XX-Y format, but the tarballs are named XX_Y and the containing
-# directories XX.Y.
 ICU_VERSION = 78.2
 ICU_SOURCE = icu4c-$(ICU_VERSION)-sources.tgz
 ICU_SITE = \