2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/classes/multilib.bbclass b/meta/classes/multilib.bbclass
index d80a34cf27..b6c09969b1 100644
--- a/meta/classes/multilib.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/multilib.bbclass
@@ -140,6 +140,7 @@ python multilib_virtclass_handler_postkeyexp () {
         return
 
     clsextend.map_depends_variable("DEPENDS")
+    clsextend.map_depends_variable("PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS")
     clsextend.map_variable("PROVIDES")
 
     if bb.data.inherits_class('cross-canadian', d):
diff --git a/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.14.bb b/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.14.bb
index 560038d2a6..397bb5d87c 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.14.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-extended/cpio/cpio_2.14.bb
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ do_install_ptest_base:append() {
 
 # The tests need to run as a non-root user, so pull in the ptest user
 DEPENDS:append:class-target = "${@bb.utils.contains('PTEST_ENABLED', '1', ' ptest-runner', '', d)}"
-PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS:append:class-target = " ${MLPREFIX}ptest-runner"
+PACKAGE_WRITE_DEPS += "ptest-runner"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += "ptest-runner"