diff --git a/rpc/cty_encode.go b/rpc/cty_encode.go
index 175728e88..429abc4db 100644
--- a/rpc/cty_encode.go
+++ b/rpc/cty_encode.go
@@ -4,16 +4,10 @@
 package rpc
 
 import (
-	"encoding/gob"
-
 	"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty"
 	"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty/json"
 )
 
-// Test that cty types implement the gob.GobEncoder interface.
-// Support for encoding/gob was removed in github.com/zclconf/go-cty@v1.11.0.
-var _ gob.GobEncoder = cty.Value{}
-
 // cty.Value is does not know how to encode itself through the wire so we
 // transform it to bytes.
 func encodeCTYValues(config []interface{}) ([]interface{}, error) {
diff --git a/rpc/init.go b/rpc/init.go
index 6e8b49b85..de598402b 100644
--- a/rpc/init.go
+++ b/rpc/init.go
@@ -9,7 +9,16 @@ underpins the packer server that all plugins must implement.
 */
 package rpc
 
-import "encoding/gob"
+import (
+	"encoding/gob"
+
+	"github.com/zclconf/go-cty/cty"
+)
+
+// Test that cty types implement the gob.GobEncoder interface.
+// Support for encoding/gob was removed in github.com/zclconf/go-cty@v1.11.0.
+// Refer to issue ...
+var _ gob.GobEncoder = cty.Value{}
 
 func init() {
 	gob.Register(new(map[string]string))