On 11 November 2015 at 20:39, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | On Fri, Nov 6, 2015 at 1:14 AM, Charles Plessy | <[email protected]> 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 -- http://dirk.eddelbuettel.com | @eddelbuettel | [email protected] _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list [email protected] https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
