1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/create_manifest2.py b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/create_manifest2.py
index 1af1443f47..87999991d7 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/create_manifest2.py
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python/create_manifest2.py
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ for key in old_manifest:
     # Handle special cases, we assume that when they were manually added 
     # to the manifest we knew what we were doing.
     print ('Handling package %s' % key)
-    special_packages=['misc', 'modules', 'dev']
+    special_packages=['misc', 'modules', 'tests', 'dev']
     if key in special_packages or 'staticdev' in key:
         print('Passing %s package directly' % key)
         new_manifest[key]=old_manifest[key]