Comment 6 for bug 1861304

Runtime libraries can't usefully use metapackages the way you're proposing, and it's not conventional to do so. Whether a dependency is on libssl1.0.0 or libssl1.1 depends on what the binaries depending on them were built against; forcibly dropping in libssl1.1 would result in broken programs.

Upgrading from libssl1.0.0 to libssl1.1 was done by progressively rebuilding binaries against libssl1.1, noting that the *runtime* library packages libssl1.0.0 and libssl1.1 can be installed together (unlike their -dev counterparts).