diff --git a/build/ci-notes.md b/build/ci-notes.md
index f5b0e869d6..ba27cdb1d7 100644
--- a/build/ci-notes.md
+++ b/build/ci-notes.md
@@ -7,11 +7,18 @@ Canonical.
 Packages of develop branch commits have suffix -unstable and cannot be installed alongside
 the stable version. Switching between release streams requires user intervention.
 
+## Launchpad
+
 The packages are built and served by launchpad.net. We generate a Debian source package
 for each distribution and upload it. Their builder picks up the source package, builds it
 and installs the new version into the PPA repository. Launchpad requires a valid signature
-by a team member for source package uploads. The signing key is stored in an environment
-variable which Travis CI makes available to certain builds.
+by a team member for source package uploads.
+
+The signing key is stored in an environment variable which Travis CI makes available to
+certain builds. Since Travis CI doesn't support FTP, SFTP is used to transfer the
+packages. To set this up yourself, you need to create a Launchpad user and add a GPG key
+and SSH key to it. Then encode both keys as base64 and configure 'secret' environment
+variables `PPA_SIGNING_KEY` and `PPA_SSH_KEY` on Travis.
 
 We want to build go-ethereum with the most recent version of Go, irrespective of the Go
 version that is available in the main Ubuntu repository. In order to make this possible,
@@ -27,7 +34,7 @@ Add the gophers PPA and install Go 1.10 and Debian packaging tools:
 
     $ sudo apt-add-repository ppa:gophers/ubuntu/archive
     $ sudo apt-get update
-    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.10 devscripts debhelper
+    $ sudo apt-get install build-essential golang-1.10 devscripts debhelper python-bzrlib python-paramiko
 
 Create the source packages: