diff --git a/frontend/deb/distro/container.go b/frontend/deb/distro/container.go
index 6340c649d..d3ad97792 100644
--- a/frontend/deb/distro/container.go
+++ b/frontend/deb/distro/container.go
@@ -38,6 +38,7 @@ func (c *Config) BuildContainer(worker llb.State, sOpt dalec.SourceOpts, client
 		withRepos,
 		llb.AddEnv("DEBIAN_FRONTEND", "noninteractive"),
 		dalec.WithMountedAptCache(c.AptCachePrefix),
+		// This file makes dpkg give more verbose output which can be useful when things go awry.
 		llb.AddMount("/etc/dpkg/dpkg.cfg.d/99-dalec-debug", debug, llb.SourcePath("debug"), llb.Readonly),
 		dalec.RunOptFunc(func(cfg *llb.ExecInfo) {
 			tmp := llb.Scratch().File(llb.Mkfile("tmp", 0o644, nil), opts...)
diff --git a/frontend/deb/distro/distro.go b/frontend/deb/distro/distro.go
index e6e57f9f7..9e41efe01 100644
--- a/frontend/deb/distro/distro.go
+++ b/frontend/deb/distro/distro.go
@@ -14,6 +14,14 @@ import (
 	"github.com/pkg/errors"
 )
 
+var (
+	defaultRepoConfig = &dalec.RepoPlatformConfig{
+		ConfigRoot: "/etc/apt/sources.list.d",
+		GPGKeyRoot: "/usr/share/keyrings",
+		ConfigExt:  ".list",
+	}
+)
+
 type Config struct {
 	ImageRef       string
 	ContextRef     string
@@ -64,11 +72,7 @@ func (cfg *Config) RepoMounts(repos []dalec.PackageRepositoryConfig, sOpt dalec.
 
 	repoConfig := cfg.RepoPlatformConfig
 	if repoConfig == nil {
-		repoConfig = &dalec.RepoPlatformConfig{
-			ConfigRoot: "/etc/apt/sources.list.d",
-			GPGKeyRoot: "/usr/share/keyrings",
-			ConfigExt:  ".list",
-		}
+		repoConfig = defaultRepoConfig
 	}
 
 	withRepos, err := dalec.WithRepoConfigs(repos, repoConfig, sOpt, opts...)
diff --git a/frontend/deb/distro/install.go b/frontend/deb/distro/install.go
index a77da4fbd..6e777e754 100644
--- a/frontend/deb/distro/install.go
+++ b/frontend/deb/distro/install.go
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ apt autoclean -y
 
 apt update
 
-if ! command -v apititude > /dev/null; then
+if ! command -v aptitude > /dev/null; then
 	needs_cleanup=1
 	apt install -y aptitude
 fi
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@ func (d *Config) InstallBuildDeps(sOpt dalec.SourceOpts, spec *dalec.Spec, targe
 		}
 
 		return in.Async(func(ctx context.Context, in llb.State, c *llb.Constraints) (llb.State, error) {
-			opts := append(opts, dalec.ProgressGroup("Insall build dependencies"))
+			opts := append(opts, dalec.ProgressGroup("Install build dependencies"))
 			opts = append([]llb.ConstraintsOpt{dalec.WithConstraint(c)}, opts...)
 
 			srcPkg, err := deb.SourcePackage(sOpt, in, depsSpec, targetKey, "", opts...)