diff --git a/fs/operations/dedupe.go b/fs/operations/dedupe.go
index 2851c219e..5fc1c0114 100644
--- a/fs/operations/dedupe.go
+++ b/fs/operations/dedupe.go
@@ -15,7 +15,6 @@ import (
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/config"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/hash"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/walk"
-	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 )
 
 // dedupeRename renames the objs slice to different names
@@ -196,9 +195,6 @@ func (x *DeduplicateMode) Type() string {
 	return "string"
 }
 
-// Check it satisfies the interface
-var _ pflag.Value = (*DeduplicateMode)(nil)
-
 // dedupeFindDuplicateDirs scans f for duplicate directories
 func dedupeFindDuplicateDirs(ctx context.Context, f fs.Fs) ([][]fs.Directory, error) {
 	dirs := map[string][]fs.Directory{}
diff --git a/fs/operations/dedupe_test.go b/fs/operations/dedupe_test.go
index df7b9d2ac..38af8f990 100644
--- a/fs/operations/dedupe_test.go
+++ b/fs/operations/dedupe_test.go
@@ -10,10 +10,14 @@ import (
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/operations"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fs/walk"
 	"github.com/rclone/rclone/fstest"
+	"github.com/spf13/pflag"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/assert"
 	"github.com/stretchr/testify/require"
 )
 
+// Check flag satisfies the interface
+var _ pflag.Value = (*operations.DeduplicateMode)(nil)
+
 func skipIfCantDedupe(t *testing.T, f fs.Fs) {
 	if !f.Features().DuplicateFiles {
 		t.Skip("Can't test deduplicate - no duplicate files possible")