diff --git a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
index 176025f9e8..b3ee2b13b4 100644
--- a/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
+++ b/documentation/dev-manual/common-tasks.rst
@@ -9351,7 +9351,7 @@ automatically for a given task, you can list the variable dependencies
 BitBake has determined by doing the following:
 
 1. Build the recipe containing the task:
-::
+   ::
 
    $ bitbake recipename