diff --git a/MANIFEST.in b/MANIFEST.in
index fc18eafd..271247ea 100644
--- a/MANIFEST.in
+++ b/MANIFEST.in
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 include MANIFEST.in
-recursive-include numpydoc/tests *.py
+recursive-include numpydoc *
 include *.txt
 include *.rst
 
diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py
index b7d16b8a..20d94ebf 100644
--- a/setup.py
+++ b/setup.py
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@
     url="https://github.com/numpy/numpy/blob/master/doc/HOWTO_DOCUMENT.rst.txt",
     license="BSD",
     install_requires=["sphinx >= 1.0.1", 'Jinja2>=2.3'],
-    package_data={'numpydoc': ['tests/test_*.py']},
+    package_data={'numpydoc': ['tests/test_*.py', 'templates/*.rst']},
     test_suite = 'nose.collector',
     cmdclass={"sdist": sdist},
 )