On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 04:10:00PM +0200, Gard Spreemann wrote:
In order to safeguard the project's mutual understanding, trust and respect, we disallow the output of generative AI as direct contributions to Debian.
This wording leaves HUGE possibilities of interpretation and will therefore cause a lot of flamewars.
Claude is not a DD, it therefore cannot contribute directly to Debian. When I say "Claude, create a Debian package doing foo and set myself as a Maintainer", is that a direct contribution?
Does the direct contribtion become indirect when I fix the Lintian errors that Claude causes myself? Does it stay a direct contribution when I just prompt Claude to fix the Lintian errors? Does that become indirect again when I review the diff?
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