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diff --git a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
index daccb6c6f..e6e6f32a9 100644
--- a/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
+++ b/doc/apt-cache.8.xml
@@ -127,8 +127,8 @@ Reverse Provides:
<listitem><para><literal>Total distinct</literal> versions is the number of package versions
found in the cache; this value is therefore at least equal to the
- number of total package names. If more than one distribution (both
- "stable" and "unstable", for instance), is being accessed, this value
+ number of total package names. If more than one distribution is being accessed
+ (for instance, "stable" and "unstable"), this value
can be considerably larger than the number of total package names.</para>
</listitem>
@@ -142,7 +142,7 @@ Reverse Provides:
<varlistentry><term><option>showsrc</option> <option><replaceable>&synopsis-pkg;</replaceable>…</option></term>
<listitem><para><literal>showsrc</literal> displays all the source package records that match
the given package names. All versions are shown, as well as all
- records that declare the name to be a Binary.</para></listitem>
+ records that declare the name to be a binary package.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry><term><option>dump</option></term>
@@ -214,9 +214,9 @@ Reverse Provides:
set the <literal>APT::Cache::GivenOnly</literal> option.</para>
<para>The resulting nodes will have several shapes; normal packages are boxes,
- pure provides are triangles, mixed provides are diamonds,
+ pure virtual packages are triangles, mixed virtual packages are diamonds,
missing packages are hexagons. Orange boxes mean recursion was stopped
- [leaf packages], blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
+ (leaf packages), blue lines are pre-depends, green lines are conflicts.</para>
<para>Caution, dotty cannot graph larger sets of packages.</para></listitem>
</varlistentry>