[tor-project] Use of "tor" as part of the name for sbws Debian package

[Matthew Finkel]

On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 04:39:30PM -0700, Damian Johnson wrote:
> Hi juga. Namespaces are useful if there's multiple packages. A
> namespace of one seems odd. In most places Stem's package is called
> 'stem' but in Debian and Fedora it's called python-stem because that's
> how those platforms like to namespace it.
> 
> Are you proposing that we call everything tor related 'tor-[name]'?
> Would you mind explaining further why we're adding this prefix?

It seems this is coming, at least in part, from this comment:

  > Well, tor-* was a proposal to disambiguate a short name. I don't
  > particularly care what the prefix would be.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903977#32

So, no, not all packages need the tor- prefix, but because "sbws" is a
simple, short name they're future-proofing against a collision.

> 
> 
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 4:02 PM, juga <juga at riseup.net> wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > we're going to package sbws [0] for Debian.
> > We would like to provide the package in deb.torproject.org and probably
> > also in the official Debian archive.
> > teor, irl [1] and others [2] proposed to used the "tor-" namespace for
> > the sbws package.
> > Ulrike pointed out [2] that software using "tor-" in their name needs to
> > be acknowledged by the Tor Project [3].
> > So, would it be fine to call the sbws Debian package something like
> > "tor-sbws"?.
> >
> > Thanks,
> > juga.
> >
> > [0] https://gitweb.torproject.org/sbws.git/
> > [1] https://trac.torproject.org/projects/tor/ticket/26848#comment:19
> > [2] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=903977
> > [3] https://www.torproject.org/docs/trademark-faq.html
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