On 26Aug30:2135+1000, Ralph Ronnquist via Dng wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 30, 2026 at 12:51:13PM +0200, Johan Helsingius via Dng wrote:

> > I wonder what this means for devuan - I assume the AI-generated code
> > will propagate from debian into devuan. Not sure how I feel about it.
>
> Yes, I agree. Since Devuan only forks a few packages and serves all
> the rest directly from Debian pools, the immediate future does look
> like that.
>
> Even the forked packages will potentially "suffer" in that they
> generally are maintained so as to offer all the functionality of the
> upstream Debian source, other than systemd related parts. Doing
> something else is a significant change to that work
>
> Thus, at this stage at least one must put Devuan on the same shelf as
> Debian in regards to containing AI slop or not.

There's another possibility. Devuan (Debian, too, if they so choose)
can fight the slop using AI. Tell it to find the slop and then you
as the HITL verify its findings to arrive at the truth. This can be
handled by truly Free AI; e.g., OLMo 3, that you can fix in the
language it was broken in, running on affordable hardware you control
and can truly sandbox if you think that is warranted.

Just be aware of the possibility if nothing else...
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