[Pkg-chromium-maint] Bug#851179: chromium: dependency conflict

[lkcl]

Package: chromium
Version: 53.0.2785.143-1
Severity: important

best illustrated as follows:

# apt-get install chromium virtualbox

virtualbox is already the newest version (4.3.36-dfsg-1+deb8u1).
Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable
distribution that some required packages have not yet been created
or been moved out of Incoming.
The following information may help to resolve the situation:

The following packages have unmet dependencies:
 chromium : Conflicts: libnettle4 but 2.7.1-5+deb8u1 is to be installed
E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.



-- System Information:
Debian Release: 7.4
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing'), (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Foreign Architectures: i386

Kernel: Linux 4.7.8lkcl (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages chromium depends on:
ii  libasound2           1.1.2-1
ii  libatk1.0-0          2.18.0-1
ii  libavcodec57         10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libavformat57        10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libavutil55          10:3.2-dmo1
ii  libc6                2.23-4
ii  libcairo2            1.14.6-1
ii  libcups2             1.7.5-10
ii  libdbus-1-3          1.10.14-1.0nosystemd1
ii  libexpat1            2.2.0-1
ii  libfontconfig1       2.11.0-6.1
ii  libfreetype6         2.5.2-2
ii  libgcc1              1:6.2.1-5
ii  libgdk-pixbuf2.0-0   2.36.0-1
ii  libglib2.0-0         2.50.1-1
ii  libgnome-keyring0    3.4.1-1
ii  libgtk-3-0           3.22.1-1
ii  libharfbuzz0b        1.2.7-1+b1
ii  libjpeg62-turbo      1:1.4.1-2
ii  libnettle6           3.3-1
ii  libnspr4             2:4.12-2
ii  libnss3              2:3.26-2
ii  libpango-1.0-0       1.38.1-1
ii  libpangocairo-1.0-0  1.38.1-1
ii  libpci3              1:3.3.1-1
ii  libpulse0            9.0-5.0nosystemd1
ii  libspeechd2          0.8-6
ii  libstdc++6           6.2.1-5
ii  libx11-6             2:1.6.4-2
ii  libxcomposite1       1:0.4.4-1
ii  libxcursor1          1:1.1.14-1+b1
ii  libxdamage1          1:1.1.4-2+b1
ii  libxext6             2:1.3.3-1
ii  libxfixes3           1:5.0.3-1
ii  libxi6               2:1.7.4-1+b2
ii  libxml2              2.9.1+dfsg1-4
ii  libxrandr2           2:1.5.0-1
ii  libxrender1          1:0.9.8-1+b1
ii  libxslt1.1           1.1.28-2
ii  libxss1              1:1.2.2-1
ii  libxtst6             2:1.2.2-1+b1
ii  x11-utils            7.7+3
ii  xdg-utils            1.1.0~rc1+git20111210-7

Versions of packages chromium recommends:
ii  fonts-liberation  1.07.3-3

Versions of packages chromium suggests:
pn  chromium-l10n  <none>

-- no debconf information