diff --git a/meta-selftest/recipes-extended/zvariant/zvariant_3.12.0.bb b/meta-selftest/recipes-extended/zvariant/zvariant_3.12.0.bb
index 4285d11b72..36f2a07ecf 100644
--- a/meta-selftest/recipes-extended/zvariant/zvariant_3.12.0.bb
+++ b/meta-selftest/recipes-extended/zvariant/zvariant_3.12.0.bb
@@ -7,6 +7,8 @@ HOMEPAGE = "https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/zbus/"
 LICENSE = "MIT"
 LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE;md5=b377b220f43d747efdec40d69fcaa69d"
 
+DEPENDS += "${@bb.utils.contains('DISTRO_FEATURES', 'ptest', 'glib-2.0', '', d)}"
+
 SRC_URI = " \
     git://gitlab.freedesktop.org/dbus/zbus;protocol=https;branch=main;subpath=zvariant \
     file://0001-Tweak-zvariant-crate-config.patch;striplevel=2 \
@@ -21,10 +23,15 @@ python do_clean_lic_file_symlink() {
 
 addtask clean_lic_file_symlink after do_unpack before do_patch
 
-inherit cargo cargo-update-recipe-crates
+inherit ptest-cargo pkgconfig cargo-update-recipe-crates
 
 # Remove this when the recipe is reproducible
 EXCLUDE_FROM_WORLD = "1"
 
 require ${BPN}-crates.inc
 require ${BPN}-git-crates.inc
+
+# zvariant is an indermediate product for the zbus project
+# and so, it provided only a static lib (rlib) which fall only
+# in -dev package
+ALLOW_EMPTY:${PN} = "1"
diff --git a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
index 94873fd19f..1896944250 100644
--- a/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
+++ b/meta/lib/oeqa/selftest/cases/devtool.py
@@ -876,7 +876,7 @@ class DevtoolModifyTests(DevtoolBase):
         self.assertTrue(any([uri.startswith('file://') and '.patch' in uri for uri in src_uri]),
                         'This test expects the %s recipe to have a patch in its src uris' % testrecipe)
 
-        self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, {}, ['cargo'])
+        self._test_recipe_contents(recipefile, {}, ['ptest-cargo'])
 
         # Clean up anything in the workdir/sysroot/sstate cache
         bitbake('%s -c cleansstate' % testrecipe)