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

micah anderson micah at riseup.net
Wed Jul 25 16:20:23 UTC 2018


Iain Learmonth <irl at torproject.org> writes:

> Hi,
>
>>>>   > Well, tor-* was a proposal to disambiguate a short name. I don't
>>>>   > particularly care what the prefix would be.
>
> The suggestion was also to help users by adding tor-. A package called
> "Simple Bandwidth Scanner" may easily be confused with a speed test
> application.
>
> The name is not very descriptive, adding tor- makes it more descriptive.

Having the word 'tor' in the short description and/or the long
description is where it matters. I don't think there is any reason to
add 'tor-' in front of 'sbws' if the description details that it is for
the tor network. 

-- 
        micah


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