Bug#1060113: ITP: debgpt -- Chatting LLM with Debian-Specific Knowledge

["M. Zhou" <lumin@debian.org>]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Mo Zhou <lumin@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-devel@lists.debian.org

* Package name    : debgpt
  Version         : ? (CLI not yet stablized)
  Upstream Contact: me
* URL             : https://salsa.debian.org/deeplearning-team/debgpt
* License         : MIT/Expat
  Programming Lang: python
  Description     : Chatting LLM with Debian-Specific Knowledge

This tool is still under development. I may not upload it very soon,
but an ITP number helps me silent lintian. I will not upload untill
I finish the CLI re-design, and finish the documentation parts.

There are some interesting findings while experimenting. For instance,
I find this rather convenient:

$ debgpt -HQ --cmd 'git diff --staged' -A 'Briefly describe the change as a git commit message.'

So I further wrapped the git commit command into

$ debgpt git commit

which automatically generates a description for staged changes and commit them for you.

Currently, some of the code of debgpt is written by debgpt, some of
the git commit messages are written by `debgpt git commit`. I will
try to explore more possibilities and add them in future releases.


The only missing dependency before uploaindg this is only src:python-openai,
which awaits in NEW as the time of writing.


The following is the full package description:

Large language models (LLMs) are newly emerged tools, which are capable of
handling tasks that traditional software could never achieve, such as writing
code based on the specification provided by the user. In this tool, we
attempt to experiment and explore the possibility of leveraging LLMs to aid
Debian development, in any extent.

Essentially, the idea of this tool is to gather some pieces of
Debian-specific knowledge, combine them together in a prompt, and then send
them all to the LLM. This tool provides convenient functionality for
automatically retrieving information from BTS, buildd, Debian Policy, system
manual pages, tldr manuals, Debian Developer References, etc. It also provides
convenient wrappers for external tools such as git, where debgpt can
automatically generate the git commit message and commit the changes for you.

This tool supports multiple frontends, including OpenAI and ZMQ.
The ZMQ frontend/backend are provided in this tool to make it self-contained.



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