| There are several issues here which tends to get mixed up a lot. Yes, a dpkg is built for a distribution, and not only that but a specific version of a distribution. So they tend to get re-built a lot. But this is something buildhosts do. What you upload is the package source. If you want to distribute a package to work on "Linux" in general, then you can't build it for a specific distribution. Then you bundle all the shared libraries and other dependencies. (Or make a static build, but for various reasons this is less common.) Do not try to rely on the naming scheme of openssl, or anything else really. This is what most games do, and the firefox tarball, and most other commercical software for Linux. There are of course downsides to this. You have to build a new package if your openssl has a security issue, for example. But that's how most software is distributed on most other operating systems, including Windows. This is also how Docker images are built. The alternative is to build packages for a specific distribution and release, and as stated above, that takes a bit of integration work. There are issues with both alternatives, but they should not be confused. |