diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
index b2dfc52a2d..49d398aa38 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/dev-manual-common-tasks.xml
@@ -5997,8 +5997,8 @@
         </para>
 
         <tip>
-            For best results, install <filename>-dbg</filename> packages for
-            the applications you are going to debug.
+            For best results, install DBG (<filename>-dbg</filename>) packages
+            for the applications you are going to debug.
             Doing so makes extra debug symbols available that give you more
             meaningful output.
         </tip>
@@ -6116,7 +6116,7 @@
                     in the default directory
                     <filename>/opt/poky/&DISTRO;</filename>:
                     <literallayout class='monospaced'>
-     /opt/poky/1.4/sysroots/i686-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb
+     /opt/poky/&DISTRO;/sysroots/i686-pokysdk-linux/usr/bin/armv7a-vfp-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/arm-poky-linux-gnueabi-gdb
                     </literallayout>
                     where <filename>arm</filename> is the target architecture
                     and <filename>linux-gnueabi</filename> is the target ABI.