Void Linux contributor Andrea Brancaleoni has disowned over 100 packages he maintained following a disagreement with the project’s policy regarding the use of artificial intelligence. The dispute arose after Brancaleoni used GLM-5.3-Flash + OpenCode to generate comments for a Go 1.27.1 package update.
Another Void Linux maintainer questioned the origin of the text, noting that the project’s AI usage policy prohibits the use of generative AI tools, including Large Language Models, without disclosure. The policy states that AI tools were used to generate comments for the pull request.
In response, Brancaleoni chose to orphan 113 packages, including Adapta, Autodia, SFML, abootimg, alacritty, arpwatch, asus-kbd-backlight, backblaze-b2, bash-preexec, beep, binfmt-support, bitlbee-facebook, bitlbee-steam, cdm, clementine, crane, csound, daemonize, darkhttpd, dep, diff-pdf, docker-cli, docker-gc, docker-gen, dtc, embree, entr, etcd, fcron, flannel, flint, font-fontin, forego, freeplane, fscrypt, gede, gettext-stub, git-cola, gkill, glock, go-bindata, go-jira, hans, hivex, hopper, hostaliases, hugo, iio-sensor-proxy, indicator-doom-cpu, interbench, ispc, jbigkit, kaitai-struct-compiler, kubernetes, kvirc, libguestfs, libnfc, libpodofo0.9.7, logstalgia, massren, mbox, mfoc, mkinitcpio-nfs-utils, mksh, moby, motion, openresolv, packer, pd, perl-Template-Toolkit, pinktrace, podofo, python3-Arrow, python3-b2sdk, python3-pdm-backend, python3-xattr, racket, rakarrack, rancher-compose, rmlint, rng-tools, rocker, runit-swap, sassc, scanmem, schroot, sift, splix, sublime-text3, subtle, supermin, sydbox, tag, tbb, terraform, terragrunt, texmaker, thermald, trollock, ttf-ubuntu-font-family, urbanterror-data, urbanterror, usbredir, vagrant, vba-m, virt-manager, virtme, webcat, websocketd, wpa_actiond, xboxdrv, xcompmgr, and yoshimi.
Notable packages now without a maintainer include Alacritty, binfmt-support, Clementine, various Docker packages, fscrypt, Kubernetes, and Intel Thermald. These packages will require other Void Linux maintainers to step forward if they are to continue being supported.
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