Comment 20 for bug 155784

As I've said a few times, Qt is not linking to the library, it is opening it dynamically at runtime. You don't even need to have libssl.so, .a or anything else installed when you compile Qt, you only need the headers.

Please read their email above, especially the part which says: "Qt should not have to specify the entire version as this will force us to rely on a particular patch version of the OpenSSL library, which may be rather limiting."

Anyway, you disagree with their choice of how to open the library. That's fine, but will you at least patch the Ubuntu version of Qt so that it either links to libssl (instead of opening it) or have it open the full filename?