On Fri, Nov 02, 2018 at 08:01:23PM -0000, Dan Kegel wrote:
> The following packages have unmet dependencies:
>  nodejs-dev : Depends: libssl1.0-dev (>= 1.0.2) but it is not going to be 
> installed
> E: Unable to correct problems, you have held broken packages.

> In other words, the current nodejs-dev does not fit into the Ubuntu
> 18.04 ecosystem.

I understand that these packages are not coinstallable.  That is not per se
a requirement for -dev packages in Ubuntu.

What is your use case for these packages being installed together?

If it's to provide a single host environment where separate software
components build-depending on each of nodejs-dev and libssl-dev can be
built, that is not sufficient rationale for changing the current behavior. 
The workaround is for each software component to be built in its own
separate environment with the -dev packages that it requires.

If you have a single software component which you are trying to build, which
is implemented in node and uses libssl, then it should be built against
libssl1.0-dev since that is the version compatible with nodejs-dev in
bionic.

If you have a single software component which is implemented in node and
also must build against another library which depends on libssl-dev, then
and only then should we evaluate changes to the -dev packages to support
this.

In our analysis of the archive for the previous SRU, we did not identify
any packages in the Ubuntu archive which fell into this last category, but
there may be some other software out there which wasn't found in our search.

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  libssl1.0-dev conflicts libssl-dev

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