composer/package-versions-deprecated incompatible with humbug/box

.gitignore

/example.phar
/vendor

box.json.dist

{
    "output": "example.phar"
}

composer.json

{
  "name": "example/example",
  "require": {
    "composer/package-versions-deprecated": "^1.8"
  },
  "bin": [
    "example.php"
  ]
}

composer.lock

{
    "_readme": [
        "This file locks the dependencies of your project to a known state",
        "Read more about it at https://getcomposer.org/doc/01-basic-usage.md#installing-dependencies",
        "This file is @generated automatically"
    ],
    "content-hash": "cdfdf248878aacf88f5a1ea67a4289bc",
    "packages": [
        {
            "name": "composer/package-versions-deprecated",
            "version": "1.8.0",
            "source": {
                "type": "git",
                "url": "https://github.com/composer/package-versions-deprecated.git",
                "reference": "98df7f1b293c0550bd5b1ce6b60b59bdda23aa47"
            },
            "dist": {
                "type": "zip",
                "url": "https://api.github.com/repos/composer/package-versions-deprecated/zipball/98df7f1b293c0550bd5b1ce6b60b59bdda23aa47",
                "reference": "98df7f1b293c0550bd5b1ce6b60b59bdda23aa47",
                "shasum": ""
            },
            "require": {
                "composer-plugin-api": "^1.1.0 || ^2.0",
                "php": "^7"
            },
            "replace": {
                "ocramius/package-versions": "1.2 - 1.8.99"
            },
            "require-dev": {
                "composer/composer": "^1.9.3 || ^2.0@dev",
                "ext-zip": "^1.13",
                "phpunit/phpunit": "^6.5 || ^7"
            },
            "type": "composer-plugin",
            "extra": {
                "class": "PackageVersions\\Installer",
                "branch-alias": {
                    "dev-master": "1.x-dev"
                }
            },
            "autoload": {
                "psr-4": {
                    "PackageVersions\\": "src/PackageVersions"
                }
            },
            "notification-url": "https://packagist.org/downloads/",
            "license": [
                "MIT"
            ],
            "authors": [
                {
                    "name": "Marco Pivetta",
                    "email": "ocramius@gmail.com"
                },
                {
                    "name": "Jordi Boggiano",
                    "email": "j.boggiano@seld.be"
                }
            ],
            "description": "Composer plugin that provides efficient querying for installed package versions (no runtime IO)",
            "funding": [
                {
                    "url": "https://packagist.com",
                    "type": "custom"
                },
                {
                    "url": "https://tidelift.com/funding/github/packagist/composer/composer",
                    "type": "tidelift"
                }
            ],
            "time": "2020-04-23T11:49:37+00:00"
        }
    ],
    "packages-dev": [],
    "aliases": [],
    "minimum-stability": "stable",
    "stability-flags": [],
    "prefer-stable": false,
    "prefer-lowest": false,
    "platform": [],
    "platform-dev": [],
    "plugin-api-version": "1.1.0"
}

example.php

<?php

use PackageVersions\Versions;

require __DIR__ . '/vendor/autoload.php';

echo Versions::getVersion(Versions::ROOT_PACKAGE_NAME), PHP_EOL;