De : Ansgar 🙀 <[email protected]> À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]> Cc : Debian vote <[email protected]> Date : 23 juil. 2026 16:25:08 Objet : Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian
> Hi, > > On Thu, 2026-07-23 at 16:05 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >>> On Thu, 2026-07-23 at 09:26 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote: >>>>> >>>> On the contrary, I think a broad policy without implementation is an >>>> open door to chaos. >>>> >>>> I don't consider reasonable to allow an LLM to push on a repo from >>>> which work can be extracted into a distro used by millions and core >>>> to a big chunk of the world ecosystem. >>>> >>>> You are of course entitled to a different opinion. >>> >>> Then we shouldn't have this policy? >>> >>> Because we cannot implement it on the vast amount of repositories from >>> which work can be extracted into Debian: we do not control upstream >>> repositories... >>> >>> Ansgar >> >> I was under the impression that we are talking about Debian here. > > Yes, and Debian extracts work from many "repo from which work can be > extracted into a distro" that are not under Debian's control and for > which Debian cannot enforce/implement policies. > > What is the difference of a LLM pushing into, for example, the python > upstream repository vs. a LLM pushing into a packaging repository for > python (which also might already include the work the former LLM > pushed)? > > Ansgar We are free to have a higher standard for ourselves that others do. The fact that upstream do have lower standards and do accept their agents to effectively push potentially problematic code or content into their repos is their right. It does not mean that we should imitate them. -- Pierre-Elliott Bécue
