diff --git a/hack/.linted_packages b/hack/.linted_packages
index 4220cec13e9..f85743ce176 100644
--- a/hack/.linted_packages
+++ b/hack/.linted_packages
@@ -50,6 +50,7 @@ federation/apis/federation/install
 federation/cmd/federation-apiserver
 federation/cmd/federation-controller-manager
 federation/cmd/genfeddocs
+hack/boilerplate/test
 hack/cmd/teststale
 pkg/api
 pkg/api/annotations