Right these days on the OE mailing lists are flowing a number of big changes for master (next release after hardknott, honister).
Amongst these the one in topic: it appears that many recipes were missing that inherit.
See for oe-core
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-core/message/156175
and meta-openembedded
https://lists.openembedded.org/g/openembedded-devel/message/93050
I am pretty sure we should double check the recipes in meta-openpli as well.
Cheers
A.A.