diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
index 5694d6fb69..83361814df 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/recipetool.py
@@ -451,18 +451,19 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, inherits)
 
     def test_recipetool_create_github(self):
-        # Basic test to see if github URL mangling works
+        # Basic test to see if github URL mangling works. Deliberately use an
+        # older release of Meson at present so we don't need a toml parser.
         temprecipe = os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'recipe')
         os.makedirs(temprecipe)
-        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'meson_git.bb')
-        srcuri = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson;rev=1.3.1'
+        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'python3-meson_git.bb')
+        srcuri = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson;rev=0.52.1'
         cmd = ['recipetool', 'create', '-o', temprecipe, srcuri]
         result = runCmd(cmd)
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(recipefile), msg="recipe %s not created for command %s, output %s" % (recipefile, " ".join(cmd), result.output))
         checkvars = {}
-        checkvars['LICENSE'] = set(['Apache-2.0', 'Proprietary', 'Unknown'])
-        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = 'git://github.com/mesonbuild/meson;protocol=https;branch=1.3'
-        inherits = ['python_setuptools_build_meta']
+        checkvars['LICENSE'] = set(['Apache-2.0', "Unknown"])
+        checkvars['SRC_URI'] = 'git://github.com/mesonbuild/meson;protocol=https;branch=0.52'
+        inherits = ['setuptools3']
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, inherits)
 
     def test_recipetool_create_python3_setuptools(self):
@@ -676,18 +677,19 @@ class RecipetoolCreateTests(RecipetoolBase):
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, inherits)
 
     def test_recipetool_create_github_tarball(self):
-        # Basic test to ensure github URL mangling doesn't apply to release tarballs
+        # Basic test to ensure github URL mangling doesn't apply to release tarballs.
+        # Deliberately use an older release of Meson at present so we don't need a toml parser.
         temprecipe = os.path.join(self.tempdir, 'recipe')
         os.makedirs(temprecipe)
-        pv = '1.3.1'
-        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'meson_%s.bb' % pv)
+        pv = '0.52.1'
+        recipefile = os.path.join(temprecipe, 'python3-meson_%s.bb' % pv)
         srcuri = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/%s/meson-%s.tar.gz' % (pv, pv)
         result = runCmd('recipetool create -o %s %s' % (temprecipe, srcuri))
         self.assertTrue(os.path.isfile(recipefile))
         checkvars = {}
-        checkvars['LICENSE'] = set(['Apache-2.0', 'Proprietary', 'Unknown'])
+        checkvars['LICENSE'] = set(['Apache-2.0'])
         checkvars['SRC_URI'] = 'https://github.com/mesonbuild/meson/releases/download/${PV}/meson-${PV}.tar.gz'
-        inherits = ['python_setuptools_build_meta']
+        inherits = ['setuptools3']
         self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, checkvars, inherits)
 
     def _test_recipetool_create_git(self, srcuri, branch=None):