diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 8ef3d2e0fd..7138f5dca6 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -902,7 +902,7 @@
- Defining the software using a custom recipe gives you total
+ Defining the software using a custom recipe gives you total
control over the contents of the image.
It is important to use the correct names of packages in the
IMAGE_INSTALL
@@ -4058,11 +4058,7 @@
- With this release of the Yocto Project, three recipes exist
- that are "ptest-enabled": bash,
- glib-2.0, and
- dbus.
- These three recipes are Autotool-enabled.
+ A recipe is "ptest-enabled" if it inherits ptest.