Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

De : Lucas Nussbaum <[email protected]>
À : Pierre-Elliott Bécue <[email protected]>
Cc : [email protected]
Date : 23 juil. 2026 09:19:20
Objet : Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

> Hi,
> 
> On 22/07/26 at 19:30 +0200, Pierre-Elliott Bécue wrote:
>> Hello,
>> 
>> I'd like to offer a ballot option for this GR. It's inspired by the
>> Linux AI assistant policy. I'm very open to comments and rewrites.
>> 
>> I'm not sure I want this GR to be implemented in a founding document, so
>> for now, unlike Matthias's proposal, I'd like my ballot option to stand
>> on its own rather than modifying a document whose future updates would
>> require a 3:1 majority.
> 
> While I would vote this ballot option above FD, I think I prefer the one
> I proposed because I think that a GR should focus on discussing the
> general policy/spirit, not implementation details that can be fleshed
> out later once the general policy is decided.
> 
> Specifically:
> 
>>    + all Signed-off-by tags and GPG signatures on anything submitted to
>>      Debian infrastructure (package, commit, mail, …) have been produced
>>      by the submitter, not by an AI assistant;
>>    + commits have been pushed and packages uploaded by the submitter,
>>      not by an AI assistant.
> 
> This adds arbitrary restrictions to personal workflows. What is the
> problem with asking a local agent to commit and push to a branch (so
> that it can later fetch and analyze salsa CI results)?
> 
>> - Work assisted by a generative AI agent or tool must be marked as such
>>    with an "Assisted-by: AGENT:MODEL:VERSION[:TOOL]" trailer in the
>>    appropriate place (commit message, changelog, …). Some lightweight
>>    generative tools, such as tab-completion in Copilot, may be used
>>    without the contributor realising they rely on generative AI models;
>>    we therefore trust submitters to assess when this rule applies. When
>>    in doubt, add the trailer.
> 
> I don't think that this level of detail should be specified in a GR.
> 
> Lucas

Hello,

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.

Bests,

-- 
Pierre-Elliott Bécue