From 4fd97c14f9cd412ce02630577cdab03c5ee52e24 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: xormania <127287135+xormania@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2026 13:51:53 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] =?UTF-8?q?repo:=20proper=20require=20=E2=80=94=20flex-req?=
 =?UTF-8?q?uire=20retired?=
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The maintainer's call: flex-require causes issues and is not proper.
The seed now declares its composition as plain require entries
pinned to the symfony line (8.1.*), which the publish schema
accepts, so composer validate --strict is restored in CI — the
earlier exemption fixed the oracle when the manifest was the defect.
Proven before push: create-project from this tree resolves and
boots v8.1.6.

Source: owner 2026-09-01 ("flex causes issues - its not proper")
Source: original
Co-Authored-By: Claude Fable 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01XehTac5TJNmPAskwrPp7rJ
---
 .github/workflows/ci.yml |  4 +---
 composer.json            | 16 +++++++---------
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-)

diff --git a/.github/workflows/ci.yml b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
index a5edffc..2912a72 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/ci.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/ci.yml
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ jobs:
       - uses: shivammathur/setup-php@f3e473d116dcccaddc5834248c87452386958240 # v2
         with:
           php-version: '8.4'
-      # Not --strict: the seed legitimately carries flex-require, which the
-      # strict publish schema rejects; the real oracle is create-project below.
-      - run: composer validate --no-check-publish
+      - run: composer validate --strict
       - name: create-project end to end
         run: |
           cd "$RUNNER_TEMP"
diff --git a/composer.json b/composer.json
index 399e7ba..6ba287a 100644
--- a/composer.json
+++ b/composer.json
@@ -18,17 +18,15 @@
     "minimum-stability": "stable",
     "prefer-stable": true,
     "require": {
-        "php": ">=8.4",
         "ext-ctype": "*",
         "ext-iconv": "*",
-        "symfony/flex": "^2"
-    },
-    "flex-require": {
-        "symfony/console": "*",
-        "symfony/dotenv": "*",
-        "symfony/framework-bundle": "*",
-        "symfony/runtime": "*",
-        "symfony/yaml": "*"
+        "php": ">=8.4",
+        "symfony/console": "8.1.*",
+        "symfony/dotenv": "8.1.*",
+        "symfony/flex": "^2",
+        "symfony/framework-bundle": "8.1.*",
+        "symfony/runtime": "8.1.*",
+        "symfony/yaml": "8.1.*"
     },
     "require-dev": {},
     "config": {