diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
index 936053c69f..e84bf225eb 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-core/packagegroups/packagegroup-meta-python.bb
@@ -104,6 +104,7 @@ RDEPENDS_packagegroup-meta-python3 = "\
     python3-djangorestframework \
     python3-dnspython \
     python3-docopt \
+    python3-docutils \
     python3-dominate \
     python3-dt-schema \
     python3-dynamic-dispatch \
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-docutils_0.16.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-docutils_0.16.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..44b7320cbb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-docutils_0.16.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+SUMMARY = "Docutils is a modular system for processing documentation into useful formats"
+HOMEPAGE = "https://pypi.org/project/docutils/"
+SECTION = "devel/python"
+LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause & GPL-2.0 & Python-2.0"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING.txt;md5=7a4646907ab9083c826280b19e103106"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "9ccb6f332e23360f964de72c8ea5f0ed"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7d4e999cca74a52611773a42912088078363a30912e8822f7a3d38043b767573"
+
+inherit pypi setuptools3