diff --git a/lib/spack/docs/tutorial_sc16_packaging.rst b/lib/spack/docs/tutorial_sc16_packaging.rst
index 41c938327efb6bc98909ecb0ae2535fcbaae55ae..edcdb5533d478ef430b3796a81ae8ac61eaa5ddb 100644
--- a/lib/spack/docs/tutorial_sc16_packaging.rst
+++ b/lib/spack/docs/tutorial_sc16_packaging.rst
@@ -266,7 +266,7 @@ As per the error message, Spack has given us a ``spack-build.out`` debug log:
   configure: error: unable to locate ``adept-utils`` installation
 
 This gives us the output from the build, and it's fairly obvious that
-mpileaks isn't finding it's ``adept-utils`` package.  Spack has
+mpileaks isn't finding its ``adept-utils`` package.  Spack has
 automatically added the include and library directories of
 ``adept-utils`` to the compiler's search path, but some packages like
 mpileaks can sometimes be picky and still want things spelled out on