diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index 6b9f3aa786..e7e7b9ef97 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -8253,7 +8253,8 @@ Some notes from Cal:
                     sub-architecture values.
                     If so, the class sets the
                     <ulink url='&YOCTO_DOCS_REF_URL;#var-PACKAGE_ARCH'><filename>PACKAGE_ARCH</filename></ulink>
-                    value as <filename>MACHINE_SUBARCH</filename>.
+                    value based on the <filename>MACHINE_SUBARCH</filename>
+                    value.
                     If the package does not provide or depend on one of the
                     sub-architecture values but it matches a value in the
                     machine-specific filter, it sets