Comment 1 for bug 1674965

is there any need to have the versioned files at all ?

iirc we do not ever use them anyway, so they would only be relevant for users poking around inside the snap to actually see the versioning (which snap list would hopefully tell them without tinkering).

image building will only handle the unversioned variants. (in that light it might probably also be cleverer to flip around the logic and make the versioned file a symlink to the unversioned one)