this test does a one way check from the .manifest to the pkgdata dir. This test is looking for entries in the manifest that do not exist in the pkgdata dir. The bug you mention is the other way around, things that are installed in the rootfs but not listed in the manifest. I believe a test for this would be necessary too though I am not sure that the bug is a genuine error yet.

Benjamin 

On Fri, 2015-10-16 at 17:20 +0100, Burton, Ross wrote:
On 7 October 2015 at 20:41, Benjamin Esquivel <benjamin.esquivel@linux.intel.com> wrote:
tests added:
 - manifest.VerifyManifest.test_image_manifest_entries


This test case isn't exposing a known bug in the manifests, where the installed package list and the manifest don't match, specifically the manifest is missing the locale packages (8444).

Ross