@ilja Sadly OpenSSL is one of those doubly-annoying libraries that you both do not want to vendor *and* has regular ABI breaks.
Distros should provide older/newer versions as compatibility but neither Debian nor Ubuntu are doing this (and of course they're also a pain to package for…).

It's pretty much a stalemate kind of situation where the only thing you can do is make a bad choice. (And nearly be forced to it because Debian stale also means supporting nearly-EOL versions of Elixir…)

My wish is for Debian to have a non-frozen or at least more up to date repository for things like applications, quite like what you get on the BSD side of things with base system being frozen for long term while ports are being regularly updated (either rolling or snapshots).