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@@ -201,12 +201,6 @@ If needed, you can specify the Scala version with `-PscalaVersion=2.13`.
 ### Building the test jar ###
     ./gradlew testJar
 
-### Determining how transitive dependencies are added ###
-    ./gradlew core:dependencies --configuration runtime
-
-### Determining if any dependencies could be updated ###
-    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates
-
 ### Running code quality checks ###
 There are two code quality analysis tools that we regularly run, spotbugs and checkstyle.
 
@@ -233,6 +227,21 @@ We use [JMH](https://openjdk.java.net/projects/code-tools/jmh/) to write microbe
     
 See [jmh-benchmarks/README.md](https://github.com/apache/kafka/blob/trunk/jmh-benchmarks/README.md) for details on how to run the microbenchmarks.
 
+### Dependency Analysis ###
+
+The gradle [dependency debugging documentation](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/viewing_debugging_dependencies.html) mentions using the `dependencies` or `dependencyInsight` tasks to debug dependencies for the root project or individual subprojects.
+
+Alternatively, use the `allDeps` or `allDepInsight` tasks for recursively iterating through all subprojects:
+
+    ./gradlew allDeps
+
+    ./gradlew allDepInsight --configuration runtimeClasspath --dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
+
+These take the same arguments as the builtin variants.
+
+### Determining if any dependencies could be updated ###
+    ./gradlew dependencyUpdates
+
 ### Common build options ###
 
 The following options should be set with a `-P` switch, for example `./gradlew -PmaxParallelForks=1 test`.
@@ -260,18 +269,6 @@ only safe if the Scala library version is the same at compile time and runtime.
 may depend on the kafka jar for integration tests where they may include a scala library with a different version), we don't enable it by
 default. See https://www.lightbend.com/blog/scala-inliner-optimizer for more details.
 
-### Dependency Analysis ###
-
-The gradle [dependency debugging documentation](https://docs.gradle.org/current/userguide/viewing_debugging_dependencies.html) mentions using the `dependencies` or `dependencyInsight` tasks to debug dependencies for the root project or individual subprojects.
-
-Alternatively, use the `allDeps` or `allDepInsight` tasks for recursively iterating through all subprojects:
-
-    ./gradlew allDeps
-
-    ./gradlew allDepInsight --configuration runtimeClasspath --dependency com.fasterxml.jackson.core:jackson-databind
-
-These take the same arguments as the builtin variants.
-
 ### Running system tests ###
 
 See [tests/README.md](tests/README.md).