On 2019-03-01 23:55:11 [+0100], Jeroen Ooms wrote: > On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:05 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior > <sebast...@breakpoint.cc> wrote: > > > > On 2019-03-01 11:16:35 [+0100], Jeroen Ooms wrote: > > > FWIW, the underlying problem in a regression in libssl though. So if > > > the problem appears for other packages you could also backport this > > > libssl patch: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/8375 > > > > Does this problem solve your problem or does it have nothing to do with > > the current situation? > > As stated, that is the bug report in libssl which causes the crash in > r-cran-openssl (and the first reply links to a PR with a patch). > > I have released a workaround in the R bindings so that it can work > with libssl 1.1.1b as-is. Hence in other to fix the crash in > r-cran-openssl, you either need to update to upstream version 1.2.2, > or alternatively, you could backport the libssl patch from the > discussion above.
So if the bug is really in libssl1.1 then I don't see why you should do something. I will try to backport that commit then and make a new upload. Sebastian