[R-pkg-team] Bug#923447: openssl breaks r-cran-openssl autopkgtest

[Paul Gevers]

Source: openssl, r-cran-openssl
Control: found -1 openssl/1.1.1b-1
Control: found -1 r-cran-openssl/1.2.1+dfsg-1
Severity: important
X-Debbugs-CC: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
User: debian-ci at lists.debian.org
Usertags: breaks needs-update

Dear maintainers,

With a recent upload of openssl the autopkgtest of r-cran-openssl fails
in testing when that autopkgtest is run with the binary packages of
openssl from unstable. It passes when run with only packages from
testing. In tabular form:
                       pass            fail
openssl                from testing    1.1.1b-1
r-cran-openssl         from testing    1.2.1+dfsg-1
all others             from testing    from testing

I copied some of the output at the bottom of this report. The error
looks quite scary to me, but I have no idea if this means that
r-cran-openssl is really failing, or if openssl has changed it's
interface in a bad way.

Currently this regression is blocking the migration of openssl to
testing [1]. Due to the nature of this issue, I filed this bug report
against both packages. Can you please investigate the situation and
reassign the bug to the right package? If needed, please change the
bug's severity.

Please note that the window to fix this to allow openssl to migrate
without intervention is closing extremely soon.

More information about this bug and the reason for filing it can be found on
https://wiki.debian.org/ContinuousIntegration/RegressionEmailInformation

Paul

[1] https://qa.debian.org/excuses.php?package=openssl

https://ci.debian.net/data/autopkgtest/testing/amd64/r/r-cran-openssl/2021380/log.gz

autopkgtest [21:16:05]: test run-unit-test: [-----------------------

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> library(testthat)
> library(openssl)
>
> test_check("openssl")
double free or corruption (fasttop)
Aborted
autopkgtest [21:16:05]: test run-unit-test: -----------------------]

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