On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 07:55:29PM -0700, Dave Rolek wrote:
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.
Unfortunately, I don't think sbws is actually similar. Maybe using "tor-arm" instead of "arm" was an example/precedent, but I don't know the history there.
For instance, these came up from `apt list` in Debian stretch: tor
No explanation needed
tor-arm
Now renamed Nyx
tor-dbg
The debug symbols for tor package
tor-dbgsym
I'm not sure what this is. It looks like this is in Sid and experimental, and possibly a rename of tor-dbg.
tor-geoipdb
This may be the only actual example, but it is still specifically the Geo-IP database used by the "tor" process
torchat
Trademark infringement (and not developed/maintained anymore)
torsocks
This is the name of the program