diff --git a/src/cmd/go/internal/load/test.go b/src/cmd/go/internal/load/test.go
index 2cc7c6cb2a5..bb9568d07e3 100644
--- a/src/cmd/go/internal/load/test.go
+++ b/src/cmd/go/internal/load/test.go
@@ -342,6 +342,8 @@ func recompileForTest(pmain, preal, ptest, pxtest *Package) {
 			p1.ForTest = preal.ImportPath
 			p1.Internal.Imports = make([]*Package, len(p.Internal.Imports))
 			copy(p1.Internal.Imports, p.Internal.Imports)
+			p1.Imports = make([]string, len(p.Imports))
+			copy(p1.Imports, p.Imports)
 			p = p1
 			p.Target = ""
 		}
diff --git a/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/list_test_imports.txt b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/list_test_imports.txt
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..51d1ce9a696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/cmd/go/testdata/script/list_test_imports.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,19 @@
+# issue 26880: list with tests has wrong variant in imports
+go list -test -f '{{.ImportPath}}:{{with .Imports}} {{join . ", "}}{{end}}' a b
+cmp stdout imports.txt
+
+-- a/a.go --
+package a; import _ "b"
+-- b/b.go --
+package b
+-- b/b_test.go --
+package b
+-- b/b_x_test.go --
+package b_test; import _ "a"
+
+-- imports.txt --
+a: b
+b:
+b.test: b [b.test], b_test [b.test], os, testing, testing/internal/testdeps
+b [b.test]:
+b_test [b.test]: a [b.test]