sstp-client and ppp dependency conflict?

[whitenights]

I have been successfully using the sstp-client package from this repository in the past:
http://ppa.launchpad.net/eivnaes/network-manager-sstp/ubuntu
Recently, it stopped working. When I tried to manually install it there is an error stating that it requires ppp (< 2.4.7-3~) but I now have version 2.4.9-1+1.

When I looked at the package description I found odd that it lists the ppp dependency twice with different versions:

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apt-cache show sstp-client

Package: sstp-client
Priority: optional
Section: net
Installed-Size: 128
Maintainer: Ubuntu Developers <ubuntu-devel-discuss@lists.ubuntu.com>
Architecture: amd64
Version: 1.0.13-0ubuntu1
Recommends: network-manager-sstp | network-manager-sstp-gnome
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.14), libevent-2.1-6 (>= 2.1.8-stable), libssl1.1 (>= 1.1.0), libsstp-api-0 (= 1.0.13-0ubuntu1), ppp (<< 2.4.7-3~), ppp (>= 2.4.7-2+~), adduser
Filename: pool/main/s/sstp-client/sstp-client_1.0.13-0ubuntu1_amd64.deb
Size: 40088
MD5sum: 23314896885f38064b9a5fcf96b08180
SHA1: 68928171f0c2655ec96e5b89be23443bd399f843
SHA256: 1e8610b10fe7fb48f39fe50dd603ba3cd372e17d0e169e174777be4eb4e1d0d3
Description-en: Connect to a Microsoft Windows 2008 server using SSTP VPN
 A client implementation of Secure Socket Tunneling Protocol (SSTP) for
 Linux / Mac OS-X that allows remote access via SSTP VPN to Microsoft
 Windows 2008 Server. It does so by tunneling PPP data over SSL.
Description-md5: a319e06e6a946cf775b7fce3fbbe124f


Is that normal? Is there anything I can do to solve this conflict?

[towo]

Ubuntu ppa are not debian compatible!
So we can't do anything for your frankendebian, period.

[whitenights]

OK, fair enough.
However, sstp-client is the package that my workplace admin specifically recommends as VPN option for Debian users. Also the use on Debian is at least mentioned in the package README, so I guess I am not the only weird one.

Do you know if there is any Debian-friendlier version of creating VPN connections with SSTP that I could use as an alternative? When searching for it I only found examples of others using sstp-client... And I guess you are not suggesting changing my OS? ;-)

[towo]

User the force aahm the source Luke.
Build a deb from the source-package, that is the clean way for all packages you can't find in debian itself.

[whistler_mb]

@whitenights

Have you tried the network-manager? There you can set up a SSTP-VPN.

[whitenights]

@whistler_mb: When I try to use the network manager it tells me that the VPN module is missing once I try to start the SSTP connection (it does not do that for other VPN connections I use with different protocols). I attributed that to the broken sstp-client package?

@towo: OK, I'll try to do that.