Re: GR: Ban LLM contributions from Debian

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.