diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/test/all_packages.py b/lib/spack/spack/test/all_packages.py
deleted file mode 100644
index a525f3c012d2894913cc33362caa4569fca17995..0000000000000000000000000000000000000000
--- a/lib/spack/spack/test/all_packages.py
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,37 +0,0 @@
-##############################################################################
-# Copyright (c) 2013, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
-# Produced at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
-#
-# This file is part of Spack.
-# Written by Todd Gamblin, tgamblin@llnl.gov, All rights reserved.
-# LLNL-CODE-647188
-#
-# For details, see https://scalability-llnl.github.io/spack
-# Please also see the LICENSE file for our notice and the LGPL.
-#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
-# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License (as published by
-# the Free Software Foundation) version 2.1 dated February 1999.
-#
-# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
-# WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the IMPLIED WARRANTY OF
-# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the terms and
-# conditions of the GNU General Public License for more details.
-#
-# You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License
-# along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
-# Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA
-##############################################################################
-import unittest
-import spack
-
-
-class AllPackagesTest(unittest.TestCase):
-    """This test makes sure that each package in Spack is possible to
-       import.  If it's not then there's some basic error either
-       in the package or in some change that has been made in Spack.
-    """
-
-    def test_get_all_packages(self):
-        for name in spack.db.all_package_names():
-            spack.db.get(name)
diff --git a/lib/spack/spack/test/package_sanity.py b/lib/spack/spack/test/package_sanity.py
index a0bf4ceb4a5581ff555d038bcf214fde93521dfc..1a7bc5dc5e8b2f97e09a2dc485d75026b726262e 100644
--- a/lib/spack/spack/test/package_sanity.py
+++ b/lib/spack/spack/test/package_sanity.py
@@ -31,6 +31,13 @@
 import spack.url as url
 
 class PackageSanityTest(unittest.TestCase):
+
+    def test_get_all_packages(self):
+        """Get all packages once and make sure that works."""
+        for name in spack.db.all_package_names():
+            spack.db.get(name)
+
+
     def test_url_versions(self):
         """Ensure that url_for_version does the right thing for at least the
            default version of each package.