Per-device specific packages are not fetched automatically on dist-upgrade

[dottedmag]

There is lot of packages to be installed to tailor system to the specific device. Currently the list of such packages is carved in stone in build-fw, so apt-get dist-upgrade does not install new packages / remove old ones as necessary.

It would be nice to fix upgrades. Ideas that come to the mind:

• per-device metapackage requesting all per-device packages. Problems: not modular, pulls per-device package even if base package is installed.
• clever dependencies on base package and per-device metapackage to fetch per-device packages as needed. Problems: apt-get is to stupid to handle it.