diff --git a/meta/classes/package.bbclass b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
index 92eba98892..84eafbd529 100644
--- a/meta/classes/package.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes/package.bbclass
@@ -619,6 +619,8 @@ def get_package_mapping (pkg, basepkg, d, depversions=None):
     key = "PKG:%s" % pkg
 
     if key in data:
+        if bb.data.inherits_class('allarch', d) and bb.data.inherits_class('packagegroup', d) and pkg != data[key]:
+            bb.error("An allarch packagegroup shouldn't depend on packages which are dynamically renamed (%s to %s)" % (pkg, data[key]))
         # Have to avoid undoing the write_extra_pkgs(global_variants...)
         if bb.data.inherits_class('allarch', d) and not d.getVar('MULTILIB_VARIANTS') \
             and data[key] == basepkg: