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

[Dave Rolek <dmr-x@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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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