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params on Fixture are not always detected during test generation #11350

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Issue

params on fixtures that are used by a shadowed but used other fixture are not always detected during test generation and subsequent test execution fails with an error.

Example

@pytest.fixture(params=(1,))
def b(): pass

@pytest.fixture(name="a")
def a1(b):  pass

@pytest.fixture(name="a")
def a2(a): pass

def test_deep_params(a): pass
> pytest -q -vvv
============================= test session starts =============================
platform win32 -- Python 3.11.2, pytest-7.4.0, pluggy-1.2.0 -- xxx
cachedir: .pytest_cache
rootdir: xxx
collecting ... 
collected 1 item

::test_deep_params ERROR

=================================== ERRORS ====================================
_____________________ ERROR at setup of test_deep_params ______________________
The requested fixture has no parameter defined for test:
    ::test_deep_params

Requested fixture 'c' defined in:
:24

Requested here:
.venv\Lib\site-packages\_pytest\fixtures.py:712
=========================== short test summary info ===========================
ERROR test_base.py::test_deep_params - Failed: The requested fixture has no p...
============================== 1 error in 0.07s ===============================

Cause

During calculation of the fixture closue only the the arguments of the last FixtureDef for a fiven argument are expanded.
The sequences of FixtureDefs are ordered alphabetical by their name (qualname?) of their function object (e.g. swapping the names of a1and a2 works).
In the example above this result in the arguments of a1 being ignored and b never being picked up on, resulting in the error at execution time.

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