diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
index 3193565b6f..ca01553fa5 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python-2.7-manifest.inc
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ RDEPENDS_${PN}-compression="${PN}-core ${PN}-zlib"
 FILES_${PN}-compression="${libdir}/python2.7/gzip.* ${libdir}/python2.7/zipfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/tarfile.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/bz2.so "
 
 DESCRIPTION_${PN}-core="Python Interpreter and core modules (needed!)"
-RDEPENDS_${PN}-core=""
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-core="${PN}-lang ${PN}-re"
 FILES_${PN}-core="${libdir}/python2.7/__future__.* ${libdir}/python2.7/_abcoll.* ${libdir}/python2.7/abc.* ${libdir}/python2.7/copy.* ${libdir}/python2.7/copy_reg.* ${libdir}/python2.7/ConfigParser.* ${libdir}/python2.7/genericpath.* ${libdir}/python2.7/getopt.* ${libdir}/python2.7/linecache.* ${libdir}/python2.7/new.* ${libdir}/python2.7/os.* ${libdir}/python2.7/posixpath.* ${libdir}/python2.7/struct.* ${libdir}/python2.7/warnings.* ${libdir}/python2.7/site.* ${libdir}/python2.7/stat.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserDict.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserList.* ${libdir}/python2.7/UserString.* ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/binascii.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/_struct.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/time.so ${libdir}/python2.7/lib-dynload/xreadlines.so \
 ${libdir}/python2.7/types.* ${libdir}/python2.7/platform.* ${bindir}/python* ${libdir}/python2.7/_weakrefset.* ${libdir}/python2.7/sysconfig.* ${libdir}/python2.7/config/Makefile ${includedir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/pyconfig.h ${libdir}/python${PYTHON_MAJMIN}/sitecustomize.py "
 
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
index 8111b31e2b..8cf45da5cb 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python_2.7.2.bb
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 require python.inc
 DEPENDS = "python-native bzip2 db gdbm openssl readline sqlite3 zlib"
-PR = "${INC_PR}.8"
+PR = "${INC_PR}.9"
 
 DISTRO_SRC_URI ?= "file://sitecustomize.py"
 DISTRO_SRC_URI_linuxstdbase = ""
diff --git a/scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py b/scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py
index 85ca353285..267d6786b1 100755
--- a/scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py
+++ b/scripts/contrib/python/generate-manifest-2.7.py
@@ -160,7 +160,7 @@ if __name__ == "__main__":
     # Parameters: revision, name, description, dependencies, filenames
     #
 
-    m.addPackage( "${PN}-core", "Python Interpreter and core modules (needed!)", "",
+    m.addPackage( "${PN}-core", "Python Interpreter and core modules (needed!)", "${PN}-lang ${PN}-re",
     "__future__.* _abcoll.* abc.* copy.* copy_reg.* ConfigParser.* " +
     "genericpath.* getopt.* linecache.* new.* " +
     "os.* posixpath.* struct.* " +