Allow minor/patch versions for Zowe/imperative packages

[roman-kupriyanov]

Is your feature or enhancement request related to a problem or limitation? Please describe

Zowe/imperative package depends on numerous packages and all of them specified with a strict version selector (e.g. [email protected]). Since they are updating not frequently, it is always a chance to stuck with unsupported/deprecated versions of the transitive dependencies. Relaxing the rules may help extenders to update the transitive dependencies on their side, to possibly be up to date with some latest bug and vulnerability fixes.

Describe your enhancement idea

Allow the minor/patch versions of the dependencies to be specified in Zowe/imperative's package.json with ^ or at least ~ selectors (e.g. yargs@^15.3.1 or yargs@~15.3.1).

Describe alternatives you've considered

Alternatively, we are using a resolution mechanism with yarn, but sometimes it is impossible to resolve the dependencies correctly.

Provide any additional context

None.

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[JTonda]

Potential conformance criteria for v3 so that plug-ins are kept safe after versions constraints are loosened.

[adam-wolfe]

Resolved by #1975. To be available in V3.