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

On 2018-07-24 18:22, Matthew Finkel wrote:

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

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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