diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
index 4f61c289..3b201c1e 100644
--- a/.travis.yml
+++ b/.travis.yml
@@ -13,7 +13,8 @@ node_js:
     # make sure we work with a range of node versions.
     #
     # Current status of node versions: https://github.com/nodejs/LTS/
-    - 6
+    # We don't work with node 6 because it doesn't support package-lock
+    # files which we need to avoid the broken version of base-x
     - 8
     - 10
 addons: