Comment # 7 on bug 1170709 from Ludwig Nussel

That opens the original issue again, ie the file ends up containing outdated
information after zypper dup then. The whole thing is a can of worms. Maybe we
can find a way to not have /etc/YaST2/control.xml in it's current form at all?

We could still package the original in /usr for later use. Any add-ons, roles
etc would be required to also ship their snippet in a unique file. That way
would make sure that zypper dup updates those files with information that
matches the distro.