diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index bbadd7b..1578a3d 100755
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -205,7 +207,7 @@ setuptools.setup(
     author='Scott Moser',
     author_email='scott.moser@canonical.com',
     url='http://launchpad.net/cloud-init/',
-    packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=['tests']),
+    packages=setuptools.find_packages(exclude=['tests.*', 'tests']),
     scripts=['tools/cloud-init-per'],
     license='GPLv3',
     data_files=data_files,