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[Loïc Minier <lool@xxxxxxxx>]

Robert, yep; I've seen it's only used in the testsuite indeed; problem
is that we actually want to run the testsuite during build, so that the
build-deps need to be there.  There is no concept of "optional build-
deps" because package builds need to be reproducible.

So this build-dep loop needs bootstrapping whenever one is building
sources from scratch, or for backports for instance; it's best when we
can avoid circular build-dep loops.

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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/709696

Title:
  Build-dependency loop with python-fixtures

Status in testtools:
  Incomplete
Status in “python-testtools” package in Ubuntu:
  Incomplete

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: python-testtools

  Hi

  python-testtools build-deps on python-fixtures which build-deps on
  python-testtools; this makes backports harder, as well as
  bootstrapping these packages.

  I've greped both way around, and it seems easiest to remove the last mentions of fixtures from python-testtools as it's only used in:
  testtools/tests/test_run.py
  testtools/tests/__init__.py
  testtools/tests/test_fixturesupport.py

  Thanks!