diff --git a/swh/deposit/tests/__init__.py b/swh/deposit/tests/__init__.py
--- a/swh/deposit/tests/__init__.py
+++ b/swh/deposit/tests/__init__.py
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-# Copyright (C) 2017  The Software Heritage developers
+# Copyright (C) 2017-2019  The Software Heritage developers
 # See the AUTHORS file at the top-level directory of this distribution
 # License: GNU General Public License version 3, or any later version
 # See top-level LICENSE file for more information
@@ -6,8 +6,6 @@
 from swh.deposit.config import setup_django_for
 from swh.deposit.config import SWHDefaultConfig  # noqa
 
-from swh.loader.core.loader import BufferedLoader
-
 
 TEST_CONFIG = {
     'max_upload_size': 500,
@@ -35,39 +33,10 @@
     return TEST_CONFIG
 
 
-TEST_LOADER_CONFIG = {
-    'extraction_dir': '/tmp/swh-loader-tar/test/',
-    'working_dir': '/tmp/swh-loader-tar/test/working-dir',
-    'debug': False,
-    'storage': {
-        'cls': 'memory',
-        'args': {
-        }
-    },
-    'send_contents': True,
-    'send_directories': True,
-    'send_revisions': True,
-    'send_releases': True,
-    'send_snapshot': True,
-
-    'content_size_limit': 100 * 1024 * 1024,
-    'content_packet_size': 10,
-    'content_packet_size_bytes': 100 * 1024 * 1024,
-    'directory_packet_size': 10,
-    'revision_packet_size': 10,
-    'release_packet_size': 10,
-}
-
-
-def parse_loader_config_file(base_filename=None, config_filename=None,
-                             additional_configs=None, global_config=True):
-    return TEST_LOADER_CONFIG
-
-
 # monkey patch classes method permits to override, for tests purposes,
 # the default configuration without side-effect, i.e do not load the
 # configuration from disk
 SWHDefaultConfig.parse_config_file = parse_deposit_config_file  # type: ignore
-BufferedLoader.parse_config_file = parse_loader_config_file  # type: ignore
+
 
 setup_django_for('testing')