Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
In the file ("hostfiles") that tells us what to copy in
from the host
system we do use wildcards. But we only wildcard the minor and
release numbers, not the soname major number, since an soname bump
probably implies some sort of major change which requires human
attention.
It shouldn't matter at all for your appliance builder.
IMHO, you should just wildcard everything and drop the file dependencies.
Much less work for you, much fewer broken dependencies, just a small risk of
breakage which isn't that big a deal (much better than having the package
uninstallable every other day as it is now).
Kevin Kofler