Re: Ballot option: Debian is created by humans

On Tue, Aug 11, 2026 at 07:57:59PM +0200, Matthias Geiger wrote:
>However, the lintian override must be written manually (for this 
>proposal). As it should anyway, since an LLM can never "know" what 
>might be appropriate and what not.
>
>Simple example:
>
>Lintian complaining that a package has no watch file. An LLM might try 
>to "help" by writing a d/watch file. However, without context, this 
>can be totally wrong. If the package has no VCS upstream or isn't 
>developed anymore, a watch file makes no sense. A seasoned contributor 
>will know that and ignore/override said warning; an LLM can't.

And if I decide as a human that the LLM's suggestion is fine and dare to 
insult my fellow DDs by not typing the identical lintian override into 
an editor but instead cut&paste the LLM's suggestion?

What if I allow the LLM to commit to my repository and then decide that 
the commit done by the LLM makes sense? I _could_ git rebase 
--interactive and remove the commit if I don't like the contribution.

>An LLM "offering" to override tags which point to underlying package 
>issues, such as shared libraries not correctly split into their 
>respective packages. Arguably, a experienced contributor will spot 
>that,
>but a new one might believe the machine.

I am an experienced contributor. Am I allowed to save myself some 
minutes of time by taking suggestions from the LLM?

Greetings
Marc