diff --git a/doc/lispref/package.texi b/doc/lispref/package.texi
index 6066ea9a936..1b37337c15b 100644
--- a/doc/lispref/package.texi
+++ b/doc/lispref/package.texi
@@ -286,9 +286,9 @@ form @code{(@var{id} . @var{location})}, where @var{id} is the name of
 the archive (a string) and @var{location} is its @dfn{base location}
 (a string).
 
-If the base location starts with @samp{http:}, it is treated as a HTTP
-URL, and packages are downloaded from this archive via HTTP (as is the
-case for the default GNU archive).
+If the base location starts with @samp{http:} or @samp{https:}, it
+is treated as an HTTP(S) URL, and packages are downloaded from this
+archive via HTTP(S) (as is the case for the default GNU archive).
 
 Otherwise, the base location should be a directory name.  In this
 case, Emacs retrieves packages from this archive via ordinary file