v1.9.9: bug #699 Avoid filtering out aliases of valid packages (Seldaek)

This PR was merged into the 1.8-dev branch.

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Avoid filtering out aliases of valid packages

It'd be good to add tests for this ... and I am not sure if the branch-alias check at line 67/68 is still needed if aliases are handled properly, might be or might not be.. I don't fully grasp the scope of what flex does here.

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27de569 Avoid filtering out aliases of valid packages

v1.9.8: bug #697 Remove extra.branch-alias on create-project (nicolas-grekas)

This PR was merged into the 1.8-dev branch.

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Remove extra.branch-alias on create-project

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d16046d Remove extra.branch-alias on create-project

v1.9.7

bug #693 Fix InformationOperation breaking on latest Composer 2.x (Se…