[Debian-med-packaging] Bug#786473: r-cran-rcurl: Linking to the NSS library causes failures.

[Charles Plessy]

Package: r-cran-rcurl
Version: 1.95-4.3-1
Severity: important

Hi all,

we distribure RCurl linked to libcurl3-nss, but this causes failures
with the 'devtools' R package:

 - https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/650
 - https://github.com/hadley/devtools/issues/467
 - http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23287685/devtoolsinstall-github-error-in-function-type-msg-aserror-true-not-se

The solution to these failures is to link to libcurl3 instead (by
build-depending on libcurl4-openssl-dev).

Would that cause forseable problems ?  If not, I would be tempted to
call the bug "serious" and ask for a stable update.

What would you think about this ?

Cheers,

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Charles