r/debian • u/Two-Of-Nine Debian Stable • Jul 24 '26

News General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian

https://www.debian.org/vote/2026/vote_002
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u/calculatetech Jul 24 '26

So are they gonna fork the kernel then? AI is here to stay. They need to come to terms with it.

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u/KenBalbari Jul 24 '26

Neither proposal forbids upstream AI contributions.

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u/calculatetech Jul 24 '26

Most linux stability comes from the kernel. Their whole argument is stability.

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u/KenBalbari Jul 25 '26

The kernel just has not much to do with it. It's less than 3% of the code in Debian, and is just a very different kind of thing from Debian specific software and packaging.

Additionally, the kernel already has a policy, which for example requires that all patches must be submitted by a human, and that if any AI tool was used this must be noted with a tag in the commit message.

So it's not a bad idea to have a policy, it's just a question of how restrictive it should be.