diff --git a/po/Makevars b/po/Makevars
index b330601..28f3b22 100644
--- a/po/Makevars
+++ b/po/Makevars
@@ -50,3 +50,6 @@ MSGID_BUGS_ADDRESS = J.Zaitseff@zap.org.au
 # List of locale categories, beyond LC_MESSAGES, for which the message
 # catalogs shall be used.  It is usually empty.
 EXTRA_LOCALE_CATEGORIES =
+
+# Additional files to distribute
+DISTFILES += README