How to modify / debug / develop Deployer package locally

[dvdinbox]

I'm having an issue with this package (link below)

I'd like to try to debug and test changes to solve my issue but I can't figure out how to do that. Please note I'm relatively new to the php / composer ecosystem.

Here's what I tried.

Copied the deployer package to an alternate location and update composer.json to the following:

    "require-dev": {
        "deployer/deployer": "@dev",
    },
    "repositories": [
        {
            "type": "path",
            "url": "./deployer"
        }
    ],

updated the problem 'provision:website' task in the copied package located at ./deployer/recipe/provision/website.php with

task('provision:website', function () {
    info("DEBUG");
})->limit(1);

I delete the composer lock file and run composer install which reports

Package operations: 0 installs, 1 update, 0 removals

• Removing deployer/deployer (v7.3.1)
• Installing deployer/deployer (dev-deployer): Symlinking from ./deployer

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When I run dep provision:web , my info("DEBUG"); code is not execute at all. The original issue persists

How can I debug and test changes to this package?

Related Issue:

#3542

[antonmedv]

Deployer ships as a phar package.

One simple way is to just redefine needed task in deploy.php.

Another just clone the repo, composer install and use ~/path/to/deployer/bin/dep.