diff --git a/docs/devel/testing.rst b/docs/devel/testing.rst
index e85e26c4caa3f16bed15b5ab6630e296f692657d..fb651eae116273431f3d9320b4680f72c0eaac3b 100644
--- a/docs/devel/testing.rst
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@@ -485,6 +485,12 @@ first to contribute the mapping to the ``libvirt-ci`` project:
    `CI <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/ci.html>`__ documentation
    page on how to trigger gitlab CI pipelines on your change.
 
+ * Please also trigger gitlab container generation pipelines on your change
+   for as many OS distros as practical to make sure that there are no
+   obvious breakages when adding the new pre-requisite. Please see
+   `CI <https://www.qemu.org/docs/master/devel/ci.html>`__ documentation
+   page on how to trigger gitlab CI pipelines on your change.
+
 For enterprise distros that default to old, end-of-life versions of the
 Python runtime, QEMU uses a separate set of mappings that work with more
 recent versions.  These can be found in ``tests/lcitool/mappings.yml``.