[R-sig-Debian] Problems with r-cran-rcurl in Trusty and Vivid. (Re: Install R on Ubuntu with libcurl support)

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Charles Plessy
<charles-r-nospam at plessy.org> wrote:
> by the way, speaking about the r-cran-rcurl package in Ubuntu, the versions in
> trusty and vivid are linked by error to the "NSS" flavour of libcurl3 instead
> of the "OpenSSL flavour", which cause at least problems when using the CRAN
> devtools package.  A bit more details are available in the Debian bug tracking
> system (https://bugs.debian.org/786473).

This report is 6 months old. The 'devtools' package has since then
migrated away from the 'RCurl' dependency and now uses the new 'curl'
package. So at least for devtools this is no longer relevant.