diff --git a/pkgs/sagemath-objects/MANIFEST.in b/pkgs/sagemath-objects/MANIFEST.in
index c9b25189372..434d5d9c2b9 100644
--- a/pkgs/sagemath-objects/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/pkgs/sagemath-objects/MANIFEST.in
@@ -81,6 +81,7 @@ graft sage/libs/gmp
 ## FIXME: Needed for doctesting
 include sage/misc/misc.*                # some_tuples used in sage.misc.sage_unittest
 include sage/misc/timing.p*             # walltime, cputime used in sage.doctest
+include sage/interfaces/quit.py         # needed for pexpect cputime
 
 global-exclude all__*.py
 global-include all__sagemath_objects.py