libssl or libssl-dev metapackage?

[Dan Kegel]

As far as I know, libssl-dev is stable.
The -dev suffix just means it provides development files, e.g. .h and .pc
files.
On any particular Ubuntu version, it only gets micro updates, and no
experimental ones.
- Dan


On Wed, Dec 11, 2019 at 11:02 AM Brylie Christopher Oxley <brylie at amble.fi>
wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I am contributing to an install script that relies on libssl. The script
> is currently hard-coding for libssl release numbers and adding
> conditional checks for each published version. I have suggested that we
> instead use the libssl-dev or openssl metapackage. The concern with
> libssl-dev is that there might be experimental releases under that alias.
>
> Is there a libssl alias or some other way to get only stable libssl
> releases?
>
> Kind regards,
>
> Brylie
>
>
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