diff --git a/README.maintainer b/README.maintainer
index 9e51a3b..8fbefb0 100644
--- a/README.maintainer
+++ b/README.maintainer
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@ Release Reminders
    Last updated: 2008.
 
  * To construct a source distribution from a pristine checkout,
-   make_release does the following:
+   make_dist does the following:
 
     autoconf
     autoheader