openssl not showing up on Trusty

[wiof]

Describe the bug After add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx and apt-get update, openssl version 1.1.1a is not available

To Reproduce Steps to reproduce the behavior:

1. On an Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty machine run sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ondrej/nginx sudo apt-get update To get the PPA installed
2. Check that the provided nginx version is available

   $ apt-cache madison nginx
    nginx | 1.14.2-1+ubuntu14.04.1+deb.sury.org+1 | http://ppa.launchpad.net/ondrej/nginx/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main Sources
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main Sources
    nginx | 1.4.6-1ubuntu3.9 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main Sources

3. Check that the desired openssl package is NOT available

   $ apt-cache madison openssl
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main Sources
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27 | http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main Sources
   openssl | 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27 | http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main Sources

Expected behavior openssl 1.1.1a should be avaliable

Distribution (please complete the following information):

• OS: Ubuntu 14.04
• Architecture: amd64
• Repository: ppa:ondrej/nginx

Package(s)

$ apt-cache policy openssl
openssl:
  Installed: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.26
  Candidate: 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27
  Version table:
     1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.27 0
        500 http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-updates/main amd64 Packages
        500 http://security.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty-security/main amd64 Packages
 *** 1.0.1f-1ubuntu2.26 0
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
     1.0.1f-1ubuntu2 0
        500 http://eu-west-1.ec2.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/main amd64 Packages

Additional context Tested on an AWS instance and on a docker container.

[oerdnj]

Yes, openssl package (with the binaries, not with the libraries) is not built on systems where OpenSSL 1.1.x wasn’t originally available, it introduces too many incompatible changes.