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@@ -10369,6 +10369,20 @@ system and gives an overview of their function and contents.
       Specifies the timeout in seconds used by the ``watchdog-config`` recipe
       and also by ``systemd`` during reboot. The default is 60 seconds.
 
+   :term:`WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS`
+      If the :term:`IMAGE_FSTYPES` variable contains "wic", the build
+      will generate a
+      :ref:`Wic image <dev-manual/wic:creating partitioned images using wic>`
+      automatically when BitBake builds an image recipe. As part of
+      this process BitBake will invoke the "`wic create`" command. The
+      :term:`WIC_CREATE_EXTRA_ARGS` variable is placed at the end of this
+      command which allows the user to supply additional arguments.
+
+      One such useful purpose for this mechanism is to add the ``-D`` (or
+      ``--debug``) argument to the "`wic create`" command. This increases the
+      amount of debugging information written out to the Wic log during the
+      Wic creation process.
+
    :term:`WIRELESS_DAEMON`
       For ``connman`` and ``packagegroup-base``, specifies the wireless
       daemon to use. The default is "wpa-supplicant" (note that the value