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

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

On 11 November 2015 at 20:39, Jeroen Ooms wrote:
| 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.

But as you know, old Ubuntu releases do not get updated retroactively. We
are in a better situation going forward, but for folks running the old
releases _vanilla_ problems persist.

Dirk

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