While the Gentoo Linux project recently established an [1]AI policy to forbid contributions to the project made using any AI tools/assistance and NetBSD also came out with a similar policy against AI-generated code, the Debian project for now has no project-wide policy regarding AI.

Recently elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted [2]a mailing list message today with various updates now that he's at the helm of the Debian project. Among those was pointing out a recent mailing list discussion over the pros and cons of leveraging AI within Debian.

[3]This mailing list thread was started last month to begin sharing thoughts on the use of AI within Debian. But for now the discussion seems to have largely concluded but [4]without any consensus on the matter. There's nothing for Debian as a project to vote on at this point and so for now the matter of AI-generated content/assets within Debian will be left to individual teams to decide.

No doubt with time they will likely come to a position of deciding how Debian as a whole should deal with AI, but that time isn't yet.

The DPL updates today also point out [5]a recent discussion over adding blends support to the Debian Installer. If that is finally tackled it will close a [6]21 year old bug report for Debian.



[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Project:Council/AI_policy

[2] https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2024/06/msg00000.html

[3] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2024/05/msg00000.html

[4] https://lists.debian.org/debian-project/2024/05/msg00030.html

[5] https://lists.debian.org/debian-blends/2024/05/msg00001.html

[6] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=186085