This is fixed in Zesty's version of php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2). Here's its changelog entry:
php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Apply patches to fix ssh2 to work again with 5.6.28 and 7.0.13 (Courtesy of Remi Collet) (Closes: #849946)
-- Ondřej Surý <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:22:53 +0100
Here's a link to the bug it closed:
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=849946
I verified Wordpress updates via ssh2 work in Xenial with only this package from Zesty.
This is fixed in Zesty's version of php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2). Here's its changelog entry:
php-ssh2 (1.0+0.13-2) unstable; urgency=medium
* Apply patches to fix ssh2 to work again with 5.6.28 and 7.0.13
(Courtesy of Remi Collet) (Closes: #849946)
-- Ondřej Surý <email address hidden> Tue, 22 Nov 2016 21:22:53 +0100
Here's a link to the bug it closed:
https:/ /bugs.debian. org/cgi- bin/bugreport. cgi?bug= 849946
I verified Wordpress updates via ssh2 work in Xenial with only this package from Zesty.