diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
index 4012be5..2b5d665 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/ptest-packagelists.inc
@@ -90,6 +90,7 @@ PTESTS_FAST = "\
     python3-pytz \
     python3-pyyaml \
     python3-rpds-py \
+    python3-six \
     python3-trove-classifiers \
     python3-vcs-versioning \
     python3-uritools \
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb
index 693f181..ca120e0 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-six_1.17.0.bb
@@ -1,4 +1,23 @@
-inherit setuptools3
+inherit setuptools3 ptest-python-pytest
 require python-six.inc
 
 SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "ff70335d468e7eb6ec65b95b99d3a2836546063f63acc5171de367e834932a81"
+
+PTEST_PYTEST_DIR = "."
+
+# test_six.py exercises the six.moves mappings, which import these stdlib
+# modules that are packaged separately in oe-core.
+RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
+    python3-html \
+    python3-netclient \
+    python3-xmlrpc \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest:append() {
+    # six ships its test at the sdist root; keep only test_six.py plus the
+    # generated run-ptest, and drop the packaged library sources / bytecode.
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/six.py
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/setup.py ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/setup.cfg ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/MANIFEST.in
+    rm -f  ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/CHANGES ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/README.rst ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/PKG-INFO ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/LICENSE
+    rm -rf ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/build ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/documentation ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/six.egg-info ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/__pycache__
+}