diff --git a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
index 0e66e84540..72db36dd5c 100644
--- a/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
+++ b/meta-yocto/conf/distro/poky.conf
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ SANITY_TESTED_DISTROS ?= " \
             Fedora-20 \n \
             CentOS-6.5 \n \
             Debian-7.* \n \
+            Debian-8.* \n \
             openSUSE-project-12.3 \n \
             openSUSE-project-13.1 \n \
             "