Module vipps_mobilepay_commerce recognized by composer as metapackage
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Reported by: [zaporylie](https://www.drupal.org/user/1532844)
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<h3 id="summary-problem-motivation">Problem/Motivation</h3>
<p>I am the maintainer of the following modules:<br>
- vipps_mobilepay<br>
- vipps_mobilepay_commerce</p>
<p>At first, the latter module was a submodule under the former one, but with an intention to move it to its own repo at one point. I subsplited the directory of the module into its own git repository and pushed it to d.org. Unfortunately, since then I have been unable to install the module via composer as it is always seen as metapackage rather than drupal-module. I added composer.json to the module's repository trying to force composer package type but with no luck.</p>
<p>Here's a relevant part from installed.json:</p>
<pre>{<br> "name": "drupal/vipps_mobilepay_commerce",<br> "version": "dev-1.0.x",<br> "version_normalized": "dev-1.0.x",<br> "require": {<br> "drupal/commerce_payment": "*",<br> "drupal/core": "^10 || ^11",<br> "drupal/vipps_mobilepay": "*"<br> },<br> "type": "metapackage",<br> "extra": {<br> "branch-alias": {<br> "dev-1.0.x": "1.0.x-dev"<br> },<br> "drupal": {<br> "version": "1.0.x-dev",<br> "datestamp": "1723319009",<br> "security-coverage": {<br> "status": "not-covered",<br> "message": "Project has not opted into security advisory coverage!"<br> }<br> }<br> },<br> "notification-url": "https://packages.drupal.org/8/downloads",<br> "license": [<br> "GPL-2.0-or-later"<br> ],<br> "authors": [<br> {<br> "name": "zaporylie",<br> "homepage": "https://www.drupal.org/user/1532844"<br> }<br> ],<br> "description": "Integrate Vipps MobilePay Merchant services with Drupal Commerce",<br> "homepage": "https://www.drupal.org/project/vipps_mobilepay",<br> "support": {<br> "source": "https://git.drupalcode.org/project/vipps_mobilepay"<br> },<br> "install-path": null<br> },</pre><p>As you can see some references to vipps_mobilepay exist which is difficult to explain. I tried force-pushing to 1.0.x and rewriting history as I expect resuing objects with the same sha across 2 repositories is at the bottom of this problem but server hooks prevent me from doing that or deleting 1.0.x branch. Would be nice to have the history but I can live without it.</p>
<p>Module on git.drupalcode.org: <a href="https://git.drupalcode.org/project/vipps_mobilepay_commerce">https://git.drupalcode.org/project/vipps_mobilepay_commerce</a></p>
<h4 id="summary-steps-reproduce">Steps to reproduce</h4>
<p>install the module on drupal 10+ with composer using </p>
<pre>composer require drupal/vipps_mobilepay_commerce 1.0.x-dev</pre>
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