diff --git a/scripts/check_freshness.py b/scripts/check_freshness.py
index 3f703d768..2fbee0d48 100644
--- a/scripts/check_freshness.py
+++ b/scripts/check_freshness.py
@@ -1760,15 +1760,18 @@ def render(findings: list[Finding]) -> str:
         # Columns are padded, never cut: the profile_sync row says in its
         # local and remote values what to re-read, and lost the end of it.
         local_width = min(max((len(f.local) for f in rows), default=0), 44)
+        remote_width = min(max((len(f.remote) for f in rows), default=0), 44)
+        # The arrow and the remote value, or as many blanks where a row has none.
+        remote_span = 4 + remote_width if remote_width else 0
         for f in rows:
             cols = f"  {f.status:7} {f.subject:{width}}"
             if f.remote:
-                cols += f"  {f.local:{local_width}} -> {f.remote}"
-            elif f.local or (f.detail and local_width):
-                # An arrow pointing at nothing read as a lost value. An empty
-                # local value still takes its column, or the detail starts
-                # where the other rows show theirs.
-                cols += f"  {f.local:{local_width}}"
+                cols += f"  {f.local:{local_width}} -> {f.remote:{remote_width}}"
+            elif f.local or (f.detail and (local_width or remote_span)):
+                # An arrow pointing at nothing read as a lost value. Empty
+                # local and remote values still take their columns, or the
+                # detail starts where the other rows show theirs.
+                cols += f"  {f.local:{local_width}}" + " " * remote_span
             if f.detail:
                 cols += f"  {f.detail}"
             lines.append(cols.rstrip())
diff --git a/tests/test_check_freshness.py b/tests/test_check_freshness.py
index 9fedcc590..829062f66 100644
--- a/tests/test_check_freshness.py
+++ b/tests/test_check_freshness.py
@@ -742,6 +742,19 @@ class RowsSayAllTheyStandFor(unittest.TestCase):
         rows = [line for line in text.splitlines() if line.startswith("  STALE")]
         self.assertEqual(rows[0].index("no longer"), rows[1].index("is not what"))
 
+    def test_a_remote_value_keeps_the_detail_column(self):
+        """A row with a remote value pushed its detail past the column the
+        rows without one used, in [coreinfo] by some fifteen characters."""
+        text = cf.render([
+            cf.Finding("coreinfo", "anybor", cf.STALE, detail="no profile claims"),
+            cf.Finding("coreinfo", "amiberry", cf.STALE, local="e5d1f0f9a143",
+                       remote="ae545d85c06f", detail=".info changed"),
+            cf.Finding("coreinfo", "x", cf.STALE, local="abc", remote="d", detail="third"),
+        ])
+        rows = [line for line in text.splitlines() if line.startswith("  STALE")]
+        columns = {row.index(word) for row, word in zip(rows, ("no profile", ".info", "third"))}
+        self.assertEqual(len(columns), 1, rows)
+
     def test_json_carries_every_unresolved_name(self):
         missing = {f"core{i:02d}": [] for i in range(50)}
         (row,) = cf._unresolved_findings("retropie", missing)