Replace `ctools:ctools (>=8.x-3.1)` as `ctools:ctools`

This shouldn't be merged.
If the versions needs to be above 3.1 we need to enforce this.
Also for your usecase you can use the composer require as syntax to tell composer a version number for branches.

From what I can tell specifying >=8.x-3.1 seems to conflict with paragraphs module when installing dev dependencies which I guess comes before password_policy in terms of lexicographical order. So we have

"require-dev": {
...
"drupal/ctools": "3.x-dev",

pathauto specifies like so

"drupal/ctools": "*"

and of course password_policy 3.1

"drupal/ctools": "^3.1"

Looking forward to seeing ctools removed before upgrading.

Please ignore my previous. What ever issue I was having seems to have gone away. Also after reading up on versioning/aliases I don't think 3.x-dev should really conflict with "^3.1".

CTools v4 was released and should be allowed as well

Chaos Tool Suite (ctools) 8.x-3.8 was released on 1 Jul 2022 by japerry
https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools/releases/8.x-3.8

Note, this is the last feature release for ctools in the 3.x branch. All new features should be tested against 4.x. The 3.x branch is now in only critical bug and security mode.

Chaos Tool Suite (ctools) 4.0.0 stable too was released on 1 Jul 2022 by japerry
https://www.drupal.org/project/ctools/releases/4.0.0

Note, some ctools dependent modules may need to be updated to work with 4.x, which will require sites to remain on 8.x-3.8 until those modules are updated to support Drupal 10 and ctools 4.

Proposed resolution

Change drupal/ctools to ~3.0 || ~4.0 in the composer.json file

Maybe should do like pathauto: e.g

"drupal/ctools": "*"

Happy with "drupal/ctools": "*" too :)

Perhaps this issue can be closed in favour of the removal of ctools entirely in:
https://www.drupal.org/project/password_policy/issues/2877040

Hey team! Thanks a lot, but can we focus our effort on #2877040: Remove dependency on CTools

Noted;
Thanks, Paulo for direction :)

As #2877040: Remove dependency on CTools was fixed, I'm closing this one... Thanks!