Re: Install problems with remmina

[Ryan Tandy <ryan@nardis.ca>]

Hi Ben,

On Wed, Sep 05, 2018 at 02:15:37PM +0000, Van Loock, Ben wrote:
> 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'   ?!

Briefly: an updated remmina backport has already been uploaded and 
built. It should appear in the archive shortly (next dinstall starts at 
1952 UTC).

https://tracker.debian.org/news/985115/accepted-remmina-12314dfsg-1bpo91-source-into-stretch-backports/
https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=remmina&suite=stretch-backports

To answer "why" in detail - from the libssh changelog:

libssh (0.8.0-1) unstable; urgency=medium

[...]

 * Remove the libssh_threads library that is not built upstream anymore.
   Add Breaks against packages linking against this library

The Breaks that was added includes:

Breaks: remmina (<< 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1+),

The version of remmina in stretch-backports is 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1.

$ dpkg --compare-versions 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1~bpo9+1 '<<' 1.2.31.2+dfsg-1+ && echo yes || echo no
yes

hope this helps,
Ryan