2 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
index 48661bee6f..d3aea74228 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         # Basic test to see if github URL mangling works
         temprecipe = os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'recipe')
         os.makedirs(temprecipe)
-        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'meson_git.bb')
+        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'python3-meson_git.bb')
         srcuri = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson;rev=0.32.0'
         result = runCmd(['recipetool', 'create', '-o', temprecipe, srcuri])
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(recipefile))
@@ -479,7 +479,7 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         temprecipe = os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'recipe')
         os.makedirs(temprecipe)
         pv = '0.32.0'
-        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'meson_%s.bb' % pv)
+        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'python3-meson_%s.bb' % pv)
         srcuri = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/%s/meson-%s.tar.gz' % (pv, pv)
         result = runCmd('recipetool create -o %s %s' % (temprecipe, srcuri))
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(recipefile))
diff --git a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
index 321d0ba257..502e1dfbc3 100644
--- a/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
+++ b/scripts/lib/recipetool/create_buildsys_python.py
@@ -297,6 +297,11 @@ class PythonRecipeHandler(RecipeHandler):
                 value = ' '.join(str(v) for v in values if v)
 
             bbvar = self.bbvar_map[field]
+            if bbvar == "PN":
+                # by convention python recipes start with "python3-"
+                if not value.startswith('python'):
+                    value = 'python3-' + value
+
             if bbvar not in extravalues and value:
                 extravalues[bbvar] = value