diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.0.0.1.bb
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+# This recipe is a copy from the oe-core one.
+# It has a lower and invalid version number in order not to be accidentally used by bitbake.
+# It is used for tests that require overlayed recipe files.
+
+SUMMARY = "GNU Aspell spell-checker"
+SECTION = "console/utils"
+
+LICENSE = "LGPLv2 | LGPLv2.1"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://COPYING;md5=7fbc338309ac38fefcd64b04bb903e34"
+
+PR = "r1"
+
+SRC_URI = "${GNU_MIRROR}/aspell/aspell-${PV}.tar.gz"
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "e66a9c9af6a60dc46134fdacf6ce97d7"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "f52583a83a63633701c5f71db3dc40aab87b7f76b29723aeb27941eff42df6e1"
+
+PACKAGECONFIG ??= ""
+PACKAGECONFIG[curses] = "--enable-curses,--disable-curses,ncurses"
+
+PACKAGES += "libaspell libpspell libpspell-dev aspell-utils"
+
+FILES_${PN}-dbg += "${libdir}/aspell-0.60/.debu*"
+FILES_libaspell = "${libdir}/libaspell.so.* ${libdir}/aspell*"
+FILES_aspell-utils = "${bindir}/word-list-compress ${bindir}/aspell-import ${bindir}/run-with-aspell ${bindir}/pre*"
+FILES_${PN} = "${bindir}/aspell"
+FILES_libpspell = "${libdir}/libpspell.so.*"
+FILES_libpspell-dev = "${libdir}/libpspell* ${bindir}/pspell-config ${includedir}/pspell"
+
+ARM_INSTRUCTION_SET = "arm"
+inherit autotools gettext
diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bbappend b/meta-selftest/recipes-test/aspell/aspell_0.60.6.1.bbappend
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+# This bbappend is used to alter the recipe using the test_recipe.inc file created by tests.
+include test_recipe.inc