Can I automatically update Shopware plugins from store.shopware.com taking care of the compatibility?

We are managing our Shopware 6 plugins via composer.

TL;DR

In case you don't manage the store via composer, I believe the extension store's version compatibility is taken into account.

But when using composer, I think this valuable information is not used?

So our project' composer.json contains for example:

"store.shopware.com/froshproductcompare": "^1.2",

I am wondering if I could safely change this to

"store.shopware.com/froshproductcompare": "*",

to get the recent version compatible with the current core.

The composer.json of the plugin contains:

    "require": {
        "shopware/core": "^6.4",
        "shopware/storefront": "^6.4"
    },

While the information in the store contains a more realistic constraint:

Can this compatibility info from the store be used in composer updates in any way or do we have to manually check the compatibility with the store info?

Are there any plans to improve this?

"store.shopware.com/froshproductcompare": "*",

This would sooner or later end up with a version conflict. The asterisk will match the latest version of the plugin and if their requirement mismatches with the local shopware/core version, I don't it can be resolved automatically. It just sees two dependencies clashing, how would it know that one takes priority?

> Can this compatibility info from the store be used in composer updates in any way or do we have to manually check the compatibility with the store info?
>
> Are there any plans to improve this?

If the plugin developer doesn't keep the version constraints in sync with what they require in the store, that's not good practice on their part. There's not a whole lot to improve in that regard, other than maybe enforcing it more strictly, which retroactively likely wouldn't be possible anyways.