diff --git a/pep-0439.txt b/pep-0439.txt
index d354c3da427..b07a7204398 100644
--- a/pep-0439.txt
+++ b/pep-0439.txt
@@ -189,8 +189,8 @@ Implementation
 ==============
 
 The changes to pip required by this PEP are being tracked in that project's
-issue tracker [2]_. Most notably, the addition of --bootstrap and --bootstrap-
-to-system to the pip command-line.
+issue tracker [2]_. Most notably, the addition of --bootstrap and
+--bootstrap-to-system to the pip command-line.
 
 It would be preferable that the pip and setuptools projects distribute a wheel
 format download.