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

[Jeroen Ooms]

On Fri, Mar 1, 2019 at 8:05 PM Sebastian Andrzej Siewior
<sebastian at breakpoint.cc> wrote:
>
> On 2019-03-01 11:16:35 [+0100], Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> > FWIW, the underlying problem in a regression in libssl though. So if
> > the problem appears for other packages you could also backport this
> > libssl patch: https://github.com/openssl/openssl/issues/8375
>
> Does this problem solve your problem or does it have nothing to do with
> the current situation?

As stated, that is the bug report in libssl which causes the crash in
r-cran-openssl (and the first reply links to a PR with a patch).

I have released a workaround in the R bindings so that it can work
with libssl 1.1.1b as-is. Hence in other to fix the crash in
r-cran-openssl, you either need to update to upstream version 1.2.2,
or alternatively, you could backport the libssl patch from the
discussion above.