[tor-project] Use of "tor" as part of the name for sbws Debian package
Dave Rolek
dmr-x at riseup.net
Wed Jul 25 02:55:29 UTC 2018
On 2018-07-24 18:22, Matthew Finkel wrote:
> 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.
It looks like the "tor-" convention already exists in Debian, so I'd be
in favor of following it.
For instance, these came up from `apt list` in Debian stretch:
tor
tor-arm
tor-dbg
tor-dbgsym
tor-geoipdb
torchat
torsocks
Dave
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