Hello With we trying to move to finally disable dymamic-deps and stop relying on them completely, an old problem will be a bit more noticeable now:
- Tons of package RDEPEND on A - Long time after that, A starts to have a new SLOT - As most reverse deps need to be ported, we need to fix it retroactively to request the old slot that is known to work. Currently, 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. This can be really problematic as some of this libs are used by a ton of packages... I can think on recent examples like gstreamer, gtk+, glib... for example a few days ago we needed to adapt reverse deps to the inclusion of a new gtk-sharp slot. 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. Then, applying the same policy of we trying to set the versions in dependencies to the versions we know are compatible, we should do the same with the slot. Thanks a lot
