On Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 08:01:19AM -0600, Gunnar Wolf wrote:
Marc Haber dijo [Wed, Aug 12, 2026 at 01:35:14PM +0200]:
I'd like to know what it means for you to be "personally
responsible". I have broken key packages more than once without
using an LLM, would I face other consequences if I broke key
packagees with an LLM assisted contribution, any if yes, why?
Well, Debian is after all a volunteer-driven project, where we do not
have the power to send you to jail to think on what you did wrong. But
I suppose you broke said key packages out of a mistake, and promptly
corrected them.
I think you felt personally responsible, and acted as quickly as
possible to (probably mistranslating from a Spanish expression) “get
your foot out of the hole”.
It was not just that you found a bug in random code: you found (I have
also done so, many times) a mistake in a contribution you made. And
you felt it was necessary for you to fix the error.
It would have been 1:1 identical if I had used AI to craft that
contribution that caused the breakage.
I would expect any DD uploading LLM-generated or LLM-assisted
packaging to be as dilligent with that as with any other packaging
they do.
That is the case for the way I work, with and without AI, yes. We have
ballot options that would not leave me that decision any more.
Greetings
Marc
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