diff --git a/debian/control.in b/debian/control.in
index 9ecff52fb5..f3839815db 100644
--- a/debian/control.in
+++ b/debian/control.in
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ Description: wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (GTK+ development)
  Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform.  Version =V
  currently supports subsets of GTK+, Motif, and MS Windows.
  .
- This package provides a debug version of the wxGtk library.  It is compiled
+ This package provides a debug version of the wxGTK library.  It is compiled
  both with -g for normal debugger tracing and with the __WXDEBUG__ flag which
  provides many internal checks by wxWindows itself that are not performed on
  apps compiled with the 'release version' libs in the -dev package.
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Description: wxWindows Cross-platform C++ GUI toolkit (wxPython binding)
  Interface) and other facilities on more than one platform.  Version =V
  currently supports subsets of GTK+, Motif, and MS Windows.
  .
- This package provides a Python binding to the wxGTK library and it's
+ This package provides a Python binding to the wxGTK library and its
  contrib libs.  If you wish to use xrced you'll also need the python-xml
  package installed.
 
diff --git a/debian/rules b/debian/rules
index 7f1c7a4af2..384f782c84 100755
--- a/debian/rules
+++ b/debian/rules
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ objdirs = $(objdir_wxbase_shared) $(objdir_wxbase_static) $(objdir_wxbase_debug)
 
 #	note that the i18n package is actually arch indep (once built)
 #	but must be built (and installed) during the arch any phase as
-#	it's pulled out of the wxGtk shared lib package.
+#	it's pulled out of the wxGTK shared lib package.
 
 # Build stamps:
 build_arch_stamps = build-wxbase-shared-stamp build-wxbase-static-stamp \