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Do you know why this causes the circular dep problem?
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It's an interesting issue.
Cargo itself actually allows circular dependencies for dev dependencies but
colcondoesn't, so if we add all dev-dependencies to our build depends, we might fall into some false positives.Details on when and why is this allowed are in the cargo book. From my understanding it's because a test is a standalone target that is built separately from the library so there isn't strictly a circular dependency.
The documentation advises against this practice but, of course, a lot of packages in the wild go and use it, such as
tokioorserdethat are very widespread.Note that however this is just a hack to be able to test this PR, I don't think we should merge this change. I believe what we would really want is indeed include dev dependencies in our dependency tree, but at the same time disregard dependency cycle errors only when they occur while resolving dev dependencies (and perhaps only
cargodev dependencies). This is however quite tricky and we should probably explore it separately.