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On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <edd at debian.org> wrote: > That said, thanks for the heads up. We'll see what comes out of it. My Debian > package also still uses curl3, but I noticed that there is a whole formal > transition going on -- so 'our' r-base-core package would get rebuilt anyway If I understand it correctly this is a problem only in Ubuntu currently. They bumped libcurl3 to libcurl4 but only for the openssl flavor of libcurl, supposedly bec...

One of the curl maintainers has pointed me to this bug report on Launchpad that may affect r-base users: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754294 The issue is that ubuntu now ships both libcurl3 (gnutls, nss) as well as libcurl4 (openssl) which cannot be installed concurrently. Because r-base-core depends on libcurl4, it will conflict with any other packages depending on libcurl3.

On 28 April 2018 at 12:16, Jeroen Ooms wrote: | One of the curl maintainers has pointed me to this bug report on | Launchpad that may affect r-base users: | https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/curl/+bug/1754294 | | The issue is that ubuntu now ships both libcurl3 (gnutls, nss) as well | as libcurl4 (openssl) which cannot be installed concurrently. Because | r-base-core depends on libcurl4, it will conflict with any other | packages depending on libcurl3. Thanks. Assuming you are not referring to the 'official' package in the distro (as I don't...