diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 0056ae7ac7..8ddcd5b075 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -1883,7 +1883,8 @@
do_fetch
task uses the prefix of each entry in the
SRC_URI variable value to determine which
- fetcher to use to get your source files.
+ fetcher
+ to use to get your source files.
It is the SRC_URI variable that triggers
the fetcher.
The