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

[Sebastian Andrzej Siewior]

On 2019-03-01 23:55:11 [+0100], Jeroen Ooms wrote:
> 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.

So if the bug is really in libssl1.1 then I don't see why you should do
something. I will try to backport that commit then and make a new
upload.

Sebastian