Problems resolving dependencies, when new releases without version prefix have been added

[schmunk42]

I am experiencing composer update issues with a certain bower-asset plugin.

composer update
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.0.4 requires bower-asset/typeahead.js 0.10.* -> no matching package found.
    - yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.0.3 requires bower-asset/typeahead.js 0.10.* -> no matching package found.
    - yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.0.2 requires bower-asset/typeahead.js 0.10.* -> no matching package found.
    - yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.0.1 requires bower-asset/typeahead.js 0.10.* -> no matching package found.
    - yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.0.0 requires bower-asset/typeahead.js 0.10.* -> no matching package found.
    - Removal request for yiisoft/yii2-gii == 2.0.9999999.9999999-dev
    - Installation request for yiisoft/yii2-gii 2.* -> satisfiable by yiisoft/yii2-gii[2.0.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.0.4, 2.0.x-dev].

Potential causes:
 - A typo in the package name
 - The package is not available in a stable-enough version according to your minimum-stability setting
   see <https://groups.google.com/d/topic/composer-dev/_g3ASeIFlrc/discussion> for more details.

Read <http://getcomposer.org/doc/articles/troubleshooting.md> for further common problems.

While not having any of the usual problems, I noticed this:

$ composer show bower-asset/typeahead.js
name     : bower-asset/typeahead.js
descrip. :                                              
keywords : 
versions : dev-master, * v0.11.1, v0.11.0, v0.10.5, v0.10.4, v0.10.3, v0.10.2, v0.10.1, v0.10.0, v0.9.3, v0.9.2, v0.9.1, v0.9.0, v0.8.2, v0.8.1, v0.8.0, 0.11.1, dev-integration-0.11.2
type     : bower-asset-library
source   : [git] https://github.com/twitter/typeahead.js.git 588440f66559714280628a4f9799f0c4eb880a4a
dist     : [zip] https://api.github.com/repos/twitter/typeahead.js/zipball/588440f66559714280628a4f9799f0c4eb880a4a 588440f66559714280628a4f9799f0c4eb880a4a
names    : bower-asset/typeahead.js

requires
bower-asset/jquery >=1.7

requires (dev)
bower-asset/jquery ~1.7
bower-asset/jasmine-ajax ~1.3.1
bower-asset/jasmine-jquery ~1.5.2

There's a 0.11.1 tag in the versions list.

Could it be that this tag makes the asset-plugin stop scanning tags with v prefix?

I tried to fix this by using an alias, but this one does not work:

"bower-asset/typeahead.js": "v0.10.5 as 0.10.5",

This one worked:

"bower-asset/typeahead.js": "0.11.1 as 0.10.99",

Related issues:

• new Typeahead version bump yiisoft/yii2-gii#38
• Fixes #38: Updated Typeahead to latest version yiisoft/yii2-gii#39

Fix - in my case:

"yiisoft/yii2-gii": "dev-master",

[francoispluchino]

I use your constraint of dependency for do the tests (install and install+update), and the 2 tests are passed with successfully:

Install test:

{
    "require": {
        "bower-asset/typeahead.js": "0.10.* | ~0.11.0"
    }
}

$ composer install --prefer-dist
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery (2.1.4)
    Downloading: 100%
    Extracting archive

  - Installing bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.11.1)
    Downloading: 100%
    Extracting archive

Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

Update test:

{
    "require": {
        "bower-asset/typeahead.js": "0.10.*"
    }
}

$ composer install --prefer-dist
Loading composer repositories with package information
Installing dependencies (including require-dev)
  - Installing bower-asset/jquery (2.1.4)
    Downloading: 100%
    Extracting archive

  - Installing bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.10.5)
    Downloading: 100%
    Extracting archive

Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

Update:

{
    "require": {
        "bower-asset/typeahead.js": "0.10.* | ~0.11.0"
    }
}

$ composer update --prefer-dist -v
Loading composer repositories with package information
Updating dependencies (including require-dev)
Adding VCS repository bower-asset/jquery
Adding VCS repository bower-asset/typeahead.js
Reading bower.json of bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.11.1)
Importing tag v0.11.1 (0.11.1.0)
Reading bower.json of bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.11.0)
Importing tag v0.11.0 (0.11.0.0)
  - Removing bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.10.5)
  - Installing bower-asset/typeahead.js (v0.11.1)
    Loading from cache
    Extracting archive

Writing lock file
Generating autoload files

The tag versions with v prefix or without prefix are scanned, it's the standard behavior of Composer. Do you use the latest stable version of the plugin?

[schmunk42]

Fixed for me. The only thing that worked in the end was removing my entire vendor folder.

Before that I tried to update the plugin, removed lock-file, removed all composer caches(!), removed all bower packages and gii. Did not help - just for reference.