Why Composer's package dependencies are not being installed?

Question

I've got the following composer.json file:

{
  "require": {
    "local/my_package": "dev-master"
  },
  "repositories": [
    {
      "packagist.org": false
    },
    {
      "type": "path",
      "url": "my_package/"
    }
  ]
}

which requires my local package which defines the following my_package/composer.json file:

{
  "name": "local/my_package",
  "require-dev": {
    "symfony/console": "*"
  }
}

^{Note: The my_package folder is under Git repository with the default master branch.}

^{Note: To create new repo, run: git init && git add -A && git commit -am'Files' .}

When I run: composer install -vvv , the local/my_package package is installed correctly, but nothing else. I would expect that dependencies defined in symfony/console should be installed as well.

Executing command (my_package/): git log -n1 --pretty=%H

- Installing local/my_package (dev-master)

How should I correct my composer.json file, so the package's dependencies can be installed automatically?

Answer 1

It seems the require-dev keyword in the package's composer.json file should be changed to require .

The require-dev property is only required for developing the package ( root package ).