> Debian is a large and complicated project: the release announcement for version 13 says it has 69,830 packages, which take a total of 403 GB of disk, and contain 1,463,291,186 lines of code. So, suitably, it is a large and complex poll.

Surely these are not just Debian-owned packages. Whatever Debian decides won’t apply to packages not owned by Debian

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roryirvine 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Debian is huge - that's why so many other distros use it as a base!

So, yes, all those packages are maintained either by an individual Debian Developer or a team of them.

There are third party repos, but they're (currently) neither as widespread nor as commonly-used as those for other major distros. This vote won't affect them, and you might potentially expect to see their use grow if one of the harsher options in this GR were to pass.

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Jenk 2 hours ago | parent [-]

The point though, is that they package 3rd party applications and libraries.

If they ban AI, they won't stop packaging apps and libraries from parties that do use AI. They wouldn't even know who does or doesn't.

	▲	roryirvine an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Sure, this is (mostly) about direct contributions to Debian. Proposal C does discourage use more broadly but acknowledges that many upstreams take a different view and that it would be impractical to ban them from using it.