Install problems with remmina

["Van Loock, Ben" <ben.vanloock@thomascook.be>]

Hi,


the following problem :

the latest available version of libssh-4 ( in backports ) is version 
0.8.1-1~bpo9+1 :

$ apt policy libssh-4
libssh-4:
   Installed: 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1~bpo9+1
   Candidate: 0.8.1-1~bpo9+1
   Version table:
      0.8.1-1~bpo9+1 100
         100 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 
Packages
  *** 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1~bpo9+1 100
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
      0.7.3-2 500
         500 http://ftp.be.debian.org/debian stretch/main amd64 Packages

I currently have version 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38-1~bpo9+1 manually 
installed ( to get initially away from the problem itself).

When I try to upgrade to the latest version of libssh-4 I get :

$ sudo apt install libssh-4
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer 
required:
   libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 libayatana-appindicator3-1 libayatana-ido3-0.4-0 
libayatana-indicator3-7 libfreerdp-client2-2 libfreerdp2-2 libvncclient1
   libwinpr2-2
Use 'sudo apt autoremove' to remove them.
The following packages will be REMOVED:
   remmina remmina-plugin-rdp remmina-plugin-secret remmina-plugin-vnc
The following packages will be upgraded:
   libssh-4
1 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 4 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 185 kB of archives.
After this operation, 668 kB disk space will be freed.
Do you want to continue? [Y/n] ^C

It wants to remove 'remmina' ??

For clarity, the installed version of remmina is also the one from the 
backports :

$ apt policy  remmina
remmina:
   Installed: 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1
   Candidate: 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1
   Version table:
  *** 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1 100
         100 http://ftp.debian.org/debian stretch-backports/main amd64 
Packages
         100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

where 'apt show remmina' shows it needs the following dependencies :


Depends: libatk1.0-0 (>= 1.12.4), libavahi-client3 (>= 0.6.16), 
libavahi-common3 (>= 0.6.16), libavahi-ui-gtk3-0 (>= 0.6.30), 
libayatana-appindicator3-1 (>= 0.4.90), libc6 (>= 2.15), libcairo2 (>= 
1.6.0), libgcrypt20 (>= 1.7.0), libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0 (>= 2.22.0), 
libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.41.2), libgtk-3-0 (>= 3.21.5), libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0), 
libjson-glib-1.0-0 (>= 1.2.0), libpango-1.0-0 (>= 1.14.0), libsm6, 
libsoup2.4-1 (>= 2.41.90), libssh-4 (>= 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38), 
libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libvte-2.91-0, libx11-6, libxext6, remmina-common 
(= 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1), default-dbus-session-bus | dbus-session-bus

So, remmina depends on libssh-4 (>= 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38).

The newer version of libssh-4 is '0.8.1-1~bpo9+1' which falls in the 
category of '>= 0.8.0~20170825.94fa1e38'

but still an update of libssh-4  would remove 'remmina'   ?!

-- 
Ben Van Loock
Thomas Cook Belgium - Linux Support Administrator, IT
Tramstraat 65 - 9052 GENT