diff --git a/debian/gitlab.templates b/debian/gitlab.templates
index 625f978fe7..8e0ecef323 100644
--- a/debian/gitlab.templates
+++ b/debian/gitlab.templates
@@ -15,14 +15,14 @@ Template: gitlab/ssl
 Type: boolean
 Default: false
 _Description: Enable https?
- Enabling https means that an SSL certificate is required to access this Gitlab
- instance (as Nginx will be configured to respond only to https requests). A
- self-signed certificate is enough for local testing (and can be generated
- using, for instance, the package easy-rsa), but it is not recommended for a
- production instance.
+ Enabling https means that an SSL/TLS certificate is required to access this
+ Gitlab instance (as Nginx will be configured to respond only to https
+ requests). A self-signed certificate is enough for local testing (and can be
+ generated using, for instance, the package easy-rsa), but it is not
+ recommended for a production instance.
  .
  Some certificate authorities like Let's Encrypt (letsencrypt.org), CAcert
- (cacert.org) offer free SSL certificates.
+ (cacert.org) offer free SSL/TLS certificates.
  Note: CAcert issued certificates are not trusted by all browsers, it requires
  installing CAcert's root certificate in such cases.
  .