Strange behavior with features of a dev-dependency

[cmichi]

I've ran into same strange behavior and can't figure out if this is a bug in trybuild or if I'm overlooking something:

If I have a Cargo.toml of a crate mycrate containing this:

[dev-dependencies]
trybuild = "1.0.43"
somecrate = { path = "../somecrate/" }

[features]
somefeature = ["somecrate/foobar"]

I get this error when running cargo test (without any features enabled!):

the package `mycrate-tests` depends on `mycrate`, with features: `somecrate` but `mycrate` does not have these features.

It works if I either remove the features section or move the somecrate dependency to [dependencies].

Any thoughts?

[cmichi]

Found rust-lang/cargo#6915, which was created by yours truly @dtolnay 🙈.

The issue is that features for dev-dependencies currently cannot be enabled by parent crates.