Andrea Pappacoda writes ("Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian"):
> On Mon Jul 27, 2026 at 6:07 PM -03, Matthias Geiger wrote:
> > Ians' proposal would exactly allow that: Per-team/per-repo decisions
> > whether LLMs would be allowed in developing it. If e.g. the lintian
> > team chose to disallow LLMs for all its contributions, that could be
> > stated in the README etc.
>
> Does it? It allows "Moderators and disciplinary teams" to do so, such as
> list masters. I don't read it as granting per-repo exeptions.
Matthias's scenario is indeed covered by paragraph 6 of my proposal:
6. Individual projects and maintainers may ban LLM contributions
completely. Such bans (including by upstream projects) must be
respected.
So lintian can set a stronger policy.
You're perhaps thinking of 4a. That is a limited power for moderators
to set weaker policy.
My proposal does not allow individual projects to weaken the policy,
only strengthen it. For example, the lintian[1] maintainers aren't
allowed to write an exception into their README so they can reply to
bug reports with LLM output.
Ian.
[1] Continuing to use lintian as an example here. I don't mean to
imply that the lintian maintainers would want to do such a thing.
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