Pacho Ramos posted on Sat, 19 Sep 2015 12:08:21 +0200 as excerpted:

> Currently, [when a slot changes] we can see how most of us try to go as
> quick as possible to fix the dependencies retroactively setting the
> proper slot but this relies on dynamic-deps, if this feature gets
> disabled, we will need to make revbumps for all of them and people will
> need to rebuild all the reverse deps. [...]
> 
> On the other hand, if we start always setting the available slots that
> we know to work, we can avoid this issue, and this is also completely
> future proof becase I don't think we can assume that package B will
> always work with the latest available SLOT package A can have in the
> future.

SGTM. =:^)

Even for packages in the default slot-0 that should work, and it'll make 
the introduction of a new version much easier. =:^)

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