diff --git a/.pylintrc b/.pylintrc
index c4a917cee..05f34fb1f 100644
--- a/.pylintrc
+++ b/.pylintrc
@@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ ignore=CVS
 # ignore-list. The regex matches against paths and can be in Posix or Windows
 # format. Because '\' represents the directory delimiter on Windows systems, it
 # can't be used as an escape character.
+# CERTBOT COMMENT
+# Changing this line back to the default of `ignore-paths=` is being tracked by
+# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/7908.
 ignore-paths=.*/_internal/tests/
 
 # Files or directories matching the regular expression patterns are skipped.
diff --git a/mypy.ini b/mypy.ini
index 3c7d03733..6c01929d4 100644
--- a/mypy.ini
+++ b/mypy.ini
@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 [mypy]
-exclude=.*/_internal/tests/
+# Removing this exclude setting is being tracked by
+# https://github.com/certbot/certbot/issues/7909.
+exclude = .*/_internal/tests/
 ignore_missing_imports = True
 warn_unused_ignores = True
 show_error_codes = True