diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs/run-ptest b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs/run-ptest
index b63c4de0d9..8d2017d39c 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs/run-ptest
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs/run-ptest
@@ -1,3 +1,3 @@
 #!/bin/sh
 
-pytest -o log_cli=true -o log_cli_level=INFO | sed -e 's/\[...%\]//g'| sed -e 's/PASSED/PASS/g'| sed -e 's/FAILED/FAIL/g'|sed -e 's/SKIPPED/SKIP/g'| awk '{if ($NF=="PASS" || $NF=="FAIL" || $NF=="SKIP" || $NF=="XFAIL" || $NF=="XPASS"){printf "%s: %s\n", $NF, $0}else{print}}'| awk '{if ($NF=="PASS" || $NF=="FAIL" || $NF=="SKIP" || $NF=="XFAIL" || $NF=="XPASS") {$NF="";print $0}else{print}}'
+pytest --automake
diff --git a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs_1.4.4.bb b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs_1.4.4.bb
index 95d1ac05ac..ad07b3b082 100644
--- a/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs_1.4.4.bb
+++ b/meta-python/recipes-devtools/python/python3-appdirs_1.4.4.bb
@@ -12,7 +12,8 @@ SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "7d5d0167b2b1ba821647616af46a749d1c653740dd0d2415100fe26e27
 inherit pypi setuptools3 ptest
 
 RDEPENDS:${PN}-ptest += " \
-	${PYTHON_PN}-pytest \
+    python3-pytest \
+    python3-unittest-automake-output \
 "
 
 do_install_ptest() {