diff --git a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py
index de4cf37ac7b..e5457a5aa1f 100644
--- a/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py
+++ b/lib/ansible/modules/packaging/os/apt.py
@@ -93,6 +93,7 @@ options:
      description:
        - Path to a .deb package on the remote machine.
        - If :// in the path, ansible will attempt to download deb before installing. (Version added 2.1)
+       - Requires the C(xz-utils) package to extract the control file of the deb package to install.
      required: false
      version_added: "1.6"
   autoremove: