General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian
As far as I know there are zero distros so far which have already enacted policies around compromised upstreams. I would imagine part of it is because it's hard enough to get consensus around packaging itself, and part of it is that the work needed to track compromised upstreams is enormous; far too big for any one distro to manage. I think for this to happen we'd need a cross-distro effort to coordinate tracking information.
- ▪As far as I know there are zero distros so far which have already enacted policies around compromised upstreams.
- ▪I would imagine part of it is because it's hard enough to get consensus around packaging itself, and part of it is that the work needed to track compromised upstreams is enormous; far too big for any one distro to manage.
- ▪I think for this to happen we'd need a cross-distro effort to coordinate tracking information.
4 outlets in our directory ran this story, first to last over 26 hours. All of the coverage we found sits in one bucket: centre. That one-sidedness is itself worth noticing.
- ▪ A Debian general resolution on LLM usage — LWN.net (Linux Weekly News)
- ▪ Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project — Phoronix
- ▪ General Resolution: LLM Usage in Debian — Hacker News - Newest: ""AI" "LLM""
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As far as I know there are zero distros so far which have already enacted policies around compromised upstreams. I would imagine part of it is because it's hard enough to get consensus around packaging itself, and part of it is that the work needed to track compromised upstreams is enormous; far too big for any one distro to manage. I think for this to happen we'd need a cross-distro effort to coordinate tracking information. Given the compromised state of the kernel, I'm not optimistic that we'll see a distro that will do the needful.
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