I think I have cracked this. What you do is to upgrade in the package manager:
To:
haproxy net 0.59_4 The Reliable, High Performance TCP/HTTP(S) Load Balancer.
This package implements the TCP, HTTP and HTTPS balancing features from haproxy.
Supports ACLs for smart backend switching.
That seems to pull the HAProxy 1.7.11 as an dependency at least it now claims to be running 1.7.11 and the first tests looks reassuring.