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I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html
71•edward•1h ago

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louwrentius•33m ago
I’m still sad that Debian is now integrating (external?) LLM in the build process which seems antithetical to the core values of Debian (as pointed out).

There is no alternative to Debian for me. I’m ready to justy throw out all my computers and become a goat herder at this point.

PS I’ll remove memory and storage from said computers to pay for land and goats before I chuck them out of my window.

disiplus•31m ago
I don't think there's another way. Everybody is being spammed with Gen AI outputs and the only even to it seems like a paradox way to fight it is with LLMs of some kind or go around it like what the EU is trying to do with watermarking and then detect AI and have different processing for it. I kinda think we could end up there, but we are still not there.
voidUpdate•26m ago
The other way is not to spam someone with LLM-generated outputs, and actually review the package
monsieurbanana•23m ago
Does debian's NEW queue actually have this issue? Not anyone can just upload to it, you have to be a debian developer or maintainer AFAIK.
tempfile•12m ago
How can the solution to LLM slop be sending more LLM slop back?
tommica•30m ago
> spend my valuable developer time (this is my free time)...

Lesson for us all is that if we do not own the thing/project/etc, things can suddenly change without our decision, and all time we put into it might become a waste-of-effort retroactively

lukeify•19m ago
Hate to say it but this is one of the primary reasons I can never get interested in contributing to open source.
throw-qqqqq•5m ago
Doesn’t this also apply to closed source software, but with the extra downsides that you can’t fork it etc.?

I contribute to open source software because it improves stuff I use and/or care about.

It seems too pessimistic, IMO, to abstain because things could potentially change to the worse, sometime in the future.

monsieurbanana•28m ago
I'm not anti-ai but I am firmly anti-make-people-read-llm-output-I-didn't-read-myself, and this breaks this.

They also have a reward system that punishes people for ignoring the llm review (by pushing their submission lower in the queue).

SOLAR_FIELDS•19m ago
Yeah AI is the relevant stand in but ultimately this is about one group of people being lazy and trying to shift more work onto another group of people. It just so happens that they are using AI to do it
account42•10m ago
I don't think it "just so happens". AI enables that behavior at great scale and arguably even encourages it.
monsieurbanana•17m ago
I guess I have to temper my own statement a bit. I do see situations where I would generate and send automated LLM messages. Probably to reply to generated unsolicited messages or pull-requests.

But to upload to debian new's queue you already need to have pre-approval, it's a different situation from e.g. a public git repository that anyone can push to.

pantalaimon•10m ago
Do you share the same opinion about script generated (pre-LLM) review comments?
cadamsdotcom•26m ago
This is a strongly phrased message but the problem could be solved with an opt-out.

Even something as simple as writing the phrase "No LLMs please" somewhere in the upload, that if present, prevents LLMs being triggered. Nothing elaborate and it preserves the default-on behavior the team seems to want.

baumschubser•22m ago
i wozld not care for most other actors even in the FOSS universe to swallow their pride and put LLM into their workflows. However, Debian proved in countless occasions before that they can and will go the route that is right, not the one that is easy, even if it makes everything slow or cumbersome and I think thats a good thing and the reason why so many others build their stuff in top of it.
mono442•15m ago
There's no point volunteering free time just to deal with slop.
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I will no longer upload to NEW

https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html
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