What to do with such a package?

Question

PHP

I have a fun dadata/apiclient package in my old project. It is not clear what happened to him - either the developer deleted the old versions, or something else has changed in the repositories, but what worked 5 years ago now behaves like this:

composer install

- Installing dadata/apiclient (v1.0.0): Downloading (failed)    Failed to download dadata/apiclient from dist: The "https://bitbucket.org/henui/dadata-apiclient/get/47bad3cb8af8773bc44ae0b548bf2bd7aa1ce411.zip" file could not be downloaded (HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found)
    Now trying to download from source
  - Installing dadata/apiclient (v1.0.0): 
                                                                  
  [RuntimeException]                                              
  Failed to clone https://bitbucket.org/henui/dadata-apiclient,   
                                                                  
  The given URL (https:***@)example.com/path-to-repository)

composer update

Your requirements could not be resolved to an installable set of packages.

  Problem 1
    - The requested package dadata/dadata-api-bundle ^1.0 exists as dadata/dadata-api-bundle[2.0.0, dev-master] but these are rejected by your constraint.
  Problem 2
    - The requested package dadata/apiclient ^1.0 is satisfiable by dadata/apiclient[1.0.x-dev] but these conflict with your requirements or minimum-stability.

How to get the required versions now? The project is not mine, I'm afraid it will break with the installation of 2.x versions.

UPD: I did not find another way out except to install versions 2.x and manually test the performance.
I'm wondering if the developers of these wonderful packages will ever read this: if there is no backward compatibility with v2, then why remove v1, and if it is, then why v2, and not v1.1?

Answer 1

I think you should try using dev-master / 1.0.x-dev
This is probably the version you want.

Answer 2

If there is a copy of the project with the /vendor/ folder, then you can pull the sources from there and publish them in your git repository and specify a link to the custom repository in composer.json.

"repositories": [
        {
            "type": "vcs",
            "url":  "[email protected]:XXXUSERNAMEXXXX/YYYYY-REPO.git"
        },