diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal/run-ptest b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal/run-ptest
deleted file mode 100644
index 8d2017d39c..0000000000
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal/run-ptest
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,3 +0,0 @@
-#!/bin/sh
-
-pytest --automake
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal_1.4.1.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal_1.4.1.bb
index d20c9ad42f..d947a73cf0 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal_1.4.1.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-jdcal_1.4.1.bb
@@ -7,21 +7,12 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://github.com/phn/jdcal"
 LICENSE = "BSD-2-Clause"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://PKG-INFO;md5=bd236e1f590973467a427bb354be0f46"
 
-inherit pypi setuptools3 ptest
+inherit pypi setuptools3 ptest-python-pytest
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "472872e096eb8df219c23f2689fc336668bdb43d194094b5cc1707e1640acfc8"
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN} += "python3-compression python3-io python3-pprint python3-shell"
 
-SRC_URI += " \
-	file://run-ptest \
-"
-
-RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
-	python3-pytest \
-	python3-unittest-automake-output \
-"
-
-do_install_ptest() {
+do_install_ptest:append () {
 	cp -f ${S}/test_jdcal.py ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/
 }