General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian

General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian

Discussion Period: 2026-07-24

Matthias Geiger [[email protected]] [text of proposal]

Johannes Schauer Marin Rodrigues [[email protected]] [mail] Antoine Le Gonidec [[email protected]] [mail] Simon Richter [[email protected]] [mail] David Bremner [[email protected]] [mail] Pierre-Elliott Bécue [[email protected]] [mail] Ian Jackson [[email protected]] [mail] Amin Bandali [[email protected]] [mail] Thorsten Glaser [[email protected]] [mail]

Choice 1

Preamble

This proposal aims to expressly forbid any contributions to Debian written with the use or assistance of large language models (LLMs) or other generative AI tools.

The scope of this GR is (non-exhaustive):

Debian source packages

Official Debian project software, such as lintian

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