9) The whole reputation of Debian suddenly disappear. Canonical announce a hard and definitive fork from it for a 100% Snap distribution.
10) Debian is dead, long live Debian.
The bad news is that the best time to prevent this was during the LLM-use vote.
The good news is that the second best-time to prevent all of this is right now.
I still trust you Debian, do the right thing!
❤️
As I predicted in https://ploum.net/2026-10-01-pascal_wager.html , no taking a strong stance against the use of LLM in your project is exactly the same as taking a strong "use LLM everywhere" stance.
There’s no middle ground.
#Debian
is demonstrating this more quickly that I even envisioned by now forcing packagers that upload to NEW to receive an LLM feedback about their work.
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2026/10/msg00263.html?pow_referer=
You can still "opt-out" but for how long?
All of this is so predictable and preventable…
#ShlaerMellor, #FunctionPointAnalysis, #punk, #environmentalist, #unionAdvocate, #anarchosocialist #freeSoftwareAdvocate #cooperativeLife #noLLMs
"with a big old lie and a flag and a pie and a mom and a bible most folks are just liable to buy any line, any place, any time" - Frank Zappa