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diff --git a/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8 b/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
index 987d250..51b2595 100644
--- a/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
+++ b/sbin/update-ca-certificates.8
@@ -23,8 +23,7 @@ update-ca-certificates \- update /etc/ssl/certs and certificates.crt
.SH DESCRIPTION
This manual page documents briefly the
.B update-ca-certificates
-commands.
-This manual page was written for the Debian distribution.
+command.
.PP
\fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP is a program that updates the directory
/etc/ssl/certs to hold SSL certificates and generates certificates.crt,
@@ -34,10 +33,11 @@ It reads the file /etc/ca-certificates.conf. Each line gives a pathname of
a CA certificate under /usr/share/ca-certificates that should be trusted.
Lines that begin with "#" are comment lines and thus ignored.
Lines that begin with "!" are deselected, causing the deactivation of the CA
-certificate in question.
+certificate in question. Certificates must have a .crt extension in order to
+be included by update-ca-certificates.
.PP
-Furthermore all certificates found below /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
-are also included as implicitly trusted.
+Furthermore all certificates with a .crt extension found below
+/usr/local/share/ca-certificates are also included as implicitly trusted.
.PP
Before terminating, \fBupdate-ca-certificates\fP invokes
\fBrun-parts\fP on /etc/ca-certificates/update.d and calls each hook with
@@ -60,7 +60,7 @@ Fresh updates. Remove symlinks in /etc/ssl/certs directory.
A configuration file.
.TP
.I /etc/ssl/certs/ca-certificates.crt
-A single-file version of CA certificates. This hold
+A single-file version of CA certificates. This holds
all CA certificates that you activated in /etc/ca-certificates.conf.
.TP
.I /usr/share/ca-certificates
@@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ Directory of CA certificates.
.I /usr/local/share/ca-certificates
Directory of local CA certificates (with .crt extension).
.SH SEE ALSO
-.BR c_rehash (1),
+.BR c_rehash (1)
.SH AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Fumitoshi UKAI <ukai@debian.or.jp>,
for the Debian project (but may be used by others).