Debian polls its developers on whether to burn the bots, tame the bots, or let 'em loose

The Debian project is polling its developers over AI usage: use it, impose limits, or ban it outright. The second Debian vote of the year, General Resolution: LLM usage in Debian is underway. More saliently, it is still underway – Debian Project Lead Sruthi Chandran extended the voting deadline by an extra week. (She was elected in March, in the first project poll of 2026.) Debian is a large and complicated project: the release announcement for version 13 says it has 69,830 packages, which