diff --git a/model/metric.go b/model/metric.go
index 3feebf32..429a0dab 100644
--- a/model/metric.go
+++ b/model/metric.go
@@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ import (
 	"unicode/utf8"
 
 	dto "github.com/prometheus/client_model/go"
-	"go.yaml.in/yaml/v2"
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
 )
 
@@ -78,14 +77,6 @@ const (
 	UTF8Validation
 )
 
-var _ interface {
-	yaml.Marshaler
-	yaml.Unmarshaler
-	json.Marshaler
-	json.Unmarshaler
-	fmt.Stringer
-} = new(ValidationScheme)
-
 // String returns the string representation of s.
 func (s ValidationScheme) String() string {
 	switch s {
diff --git a/model/metric_test.go b/model/metric_test.go
index e3573ed2..9b841b29 100644
--- a/model/metric_test.go
+++ b/model/metric_test.go
@@ -28,6 +28,14 @@ import (
 	"google.golang.org/protobuf/proto"
 )
 
+var _ interface {
+	yaml.Marshaler
+	yaml.Unmarshaler
+	json.Marshaler
+	json.Unmarshaler
+	fmt.Stringer
+} = new(ValidationScheme)
+
 func testMetric(t testing.TB) {
 	scenarios := []struct {
 		input           LabelSet