diff --git a/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-authors b/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-authors
index 09618ca44..7ea0cc58a 100644
--- a/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-authors
+++ b/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-authors
@@ -19,3 +19,10 @@ tests/generated/AUTHORS.sorted: AUTHORS
 	| awk -F: '{print $$2}' \
 	| sed 's/Di_/Di /' \
 	>> $@
+
+.PHONY: clean clean_authors
+
+clean: clean_authors
+
+clean_authors:
+	rm -f tests/generated/AUTHORS.sorted
diff --git a/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-tests b/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-tests
index 1559a8a8f..0ec54f8ec 100644
--- a/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-tests
+++ b/tests/makefiles/Makelocal-tests
@@ -163,6 +163,7 @@ test-clean:
 	rm -f ${DIFF_FILES}
 
 test-distclean test-cleanAll: test-clean
+	rm -f ${DEPEND}
 
 clean: test-clean