Composer package outdated version

[Nish Aravamudan]

Hello,

On 14.09.2016 [15:18:22 +0300], Vladislav Shumkin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Can you please update composer version to the latest one in your
> repositories. Its way too old for development purposes.
> I would like to rely on system auto-update, rather than to install the
> composer executable manually and maintain it manually.

Debian unstable (and 16.10) have 1.1.3-1.

16.04 has 1.0.0~beta2-1, which was current at the time of release.

If you have specific bugs that you are hitting with 16.04, please file
bugs against composer and indicate what the issue(s) are.

Thanks,
Nish

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