diff --git a/waku.nimble b/waku.nimble
index 43e6d020d..27f143829 100644
--- a/waku.nimble
+++ b/waku.nimble
@@ -10,6 +10,9 @@ description = "Waku, Private P2P Messaging for Resource-Restricted Devices"
 license = "MIT or Apache License 2.0"
 #bin           = @["build/waku"]
 
+## We defined the required versions in that way so that the generated nimble.lock
+## doesn't have any reference to nim or nimble. With that, we avoid cross-platform
+## issues when calculating the nim checksum.
 const NimVersion    = "2.2.4"
 const NimbleVersion = "0.18.2"