On Sat, Apr 28, 2018 at 2:38 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel <e...@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 because they added support for nghttp2 in this build. I don't think they realized this would create a split in the ecosystem between software that depends on libcurl3 vs libcurl4. I *think* that if you are building debian r-base against libcurl4-openssl-dev, then it will automatically start depending on libcurl4 once this makes it into testing: https://packages.debian.org/experimental/libcurl4 Either way you know this better than me. I was mostly giving users like myself a heads-up that when they try to upgrade to ubuntu 18.04, apt may uninstall r-base or other packages trying to resolve the libcurl3 vs libcurl4 conflicts. _______________________________________________ R-SIG-Debian mailing list R-SIG-Debian@r-project.org https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-sig-debian
