In embedded world image size do matters. $ cd tmp/work/cortexa7hf-neon-poky-linux-gnueabi/python3/3.5.3-r1.0/packages-split/python3-ctypes/ $ du -hs usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/* 4,0K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/_endian.py 20K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/__init__.py 100K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/macholib 120K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/__pycache__ 1,4M usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/test 12K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/util.py 8,0K usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/wintypes.py Please consider extracting python3-ctypes-tests package
Was this fixed by http://git.yoctoproject.org/cgit.cgi/poky/commit/?id=e6aea815de48459e1910e58a9eda58aab57d5bbf ?
Yes, that did fix it in master: $ oe-pkgdata-util find-path /usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/test/__init__.py python3-tests: /usr/lib/python3.5/ctypes/test/__init__.py