Depend on npm package only on tests

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Hi everyone,

I am writing a Meteor package and I want to test it using Mocha, Chai, Sinon and some Chai plugins (e.g. Chai as Promised) as well. The Mocha and Chai version in the practicalmeteor:x wrappers are very out-of-date, so I wanted to depend on the source npm packages directly. I got it working with the practicalmeteor:mocha driver, using the following package.js

Npm.depends({
  "simpl-schema": "0.2.3",
  "lodash.uniq": "4.5.0",
  "lodash.uniqby": "4.7.0",
  "lodash.isempty": "4.4.0",
  "mocha": "3.2.0",
  "chai": "3.5.0",
  "sinon": "2.1.0",
})

Package.onUse(function(api) {
  api.versionsFrom('1.4.2.3');
  api.use(['ecmascript', 'mongo', 'accounts-base@1.2.15']);
  api.mainModule('client/main.js', 'client');
  api.mainModule('server/main.js', 'server');
});

Package.onTest(function(api) {
  api.use('username:package');
  api.use(['ecmascript', 'practicalmeteor:mocha']);
  api.mainModule('tests/client.js', 'client');
  api.mainModule('tests/server.js', 'server');
});

However, I don’t want to include the testing libraries (essentially the devDependencies) in the package code. So, as per this suggestion, I tried listing the npm dependencies both under Package.onTest and Package.onUse :

Package.onUse(function(api) {
  api.versionsFrom('1.4.2.3');
  Npm.depends({
    "simpl-schema": "0.2.3",
    "lodash.uniq": "4.5.0",
    "lodash.uniqby": "4.7.0",
    "lodash.isempty": "4.4.0",
  })
  api.use(['ecmascript', 'mongo', 'accounts-base@1.2.15']);
  api.mainModule('client/main.js', 'client');
  api.mainModule('server/main.js', 'server');
});

Package.onTest(function (api) {
  Npm.depends({
    "simpl-schema": "0.2.3",
    "lodash.uniq": "4.5.0",
    "lodash.uniqby": "4.7.0",
    "lodash.isempty": "4.4.0",
    "mocha": "3.2.0",
    "chai": "3.5.0",
    "sinon": "2.1.0",
  });
  api.use('username:package');
  api.use(['ecmascript', 'practicalmeteor:mocha']);
  api.mainModule('tests/client.js', 'client');
  api.mainModule('tests/server.js', 'server');
});

However, it leads to an inifinite loop:

[[[[[ Tests ]]]]]

=> Started proxy.
=> Started MongoDB.
username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty...
local-test:username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty, mocha, chai,
sinon...
username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty...
local-test:username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty, mocha, chai,
sinon...
username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty...
local-test:username:package: updating npm dependencies -- simpl-schema, lodash.uniq, lodash.uniqby, lodash.isempty, mocha, chai,
sinon...

How can I Npm.depends packages that should only be included in the tests?

Thanks in advance for any help you are able to provide.