diff --git a/distros/debian/control b/distros/debian/control
index 2bf7d6fbc..285c2257c 100644
--- a/distros/debian/control
+++ b/distros/debian/control
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ Package: zoneminder
 Architecture: any
 Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}, ${misc:Depends}, ${perl:Depends}, apache2, libapache2-mod-php5 | libapache2-mod-fcgid, php5, php5-mysql|php5-mysqlnd, libphp-serialization-perl, libdate-manip-perl, libmime-lite-perl, libmime-tools-perl, mariadb-client|mysql-client, libwww-perl, libarchive-tar-perl, libarchive-zip-perl, libdevice-serialport-perl, libpcre3, ffmpeg | libav-tools, rsyslog | system-log-daemon, libmodule-load-perl, libsys-mmap-perl, libjson-any-perl, netpbm, libavdevice53 | libavdevice55, libjpeg8|libjpeg9|libjpeg62-turbo, zip, libnet-sftp-foreign-perl, libio-pty-perl, libexpect-perl, libvlccore5 | libvlccore7 | libvlccore8, libvlc5, libcurl4-gnutls-dev | libcurl4-nss-dev | libcurl4-openssl-dev, libpolkit-gobject-1-0, liburi-encode-perl
 Recommends: mysql-server|mariadb-server
-Description: A video camera security and surveillance solution
+Description: Video camera security and surveillance solution
  ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security
  applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child
  or family member or home monitoring and other care scenarios. It
@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Section: debug
 Priority: extra
 Architecture: any
 Depends: zoneminder (= ${binary:Version}), ${misc:Depends}
-Description: debugging syumbols for zoneminder.
+Description: Debugging symbols for zoneminder.
  ZoneMinder is a video camera security and surveillance solution.
  ZoneMinder is intended for use in single or multi-camera video security
  applications, including commercial or home CCTV, theft prevention and child