FWIW I can't reproduce this on a RPi 4 running the aarch64/arm64 Ubuntu 20.04 LTS image:

ubuntu@rpi4:~$ wget https://wrapdb.mesonbuild.com/v2/libuv_1.42.0-1/get_patch
--2021-12-07 05:50:01--  https://wrapdb.mesonbuild.com/v2/libuv_1.42.0-1/get_patch
Resolving wrapdb.mesonbuild.com (wrapdb.mesonbuild.com)... 138.201.247.118
Connecting to wrapdb.mesonbuild.com (wrapdb.mesonbuild.com)|138.201.247.118|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 301 Moved Permanently
Location: https://github.com/mesonbuild/wrapdb/releases/download/libuv_1.42.0-1/libuv_1.42.0-1_patch.zip [following]
--2021-12-07 05:50:03--  https://github.com/mesonbuild/wrapdb/releases/download/libuv_1.42.0-1/libuv_1.42.0-1_patch.zip
Resolving github.com (github.com)... 13.236.229.21
Connecting to github.com (github.com)|13.236.229.21|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 302 Found
Location: https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/236250352/46c49bec-514b-4411-afe8-46ac8cb2e82f?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20211207%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211207T054758Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=504c83b4d0c3567dc2f509362714a5b5709951655612c5665ca7d3e1f09050c5&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=236250352&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dlibuv_1.42.0-1_patch.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream [following]
--2021-12-07 05:50:03--  https://objects.githubusercontent.com/github-production-release-asset-2e65be/236250352/46c49bec-514b-4411-afe8-46ac8cb2e82f?X-Amz-Algorithm=AWS4-HMAC-SHA256&X-Amz-Credential=AKIAIWNJYAX4CSVEH53A%2F20211207%2Fus-east-1%2Fs3%2Faws4_request&X-Amz-Date=20211207T054758Z&X-Amz-Expires=300&X-Amz-Signature=504c83b4d0c3567dc2f509362714a5b5709951655612c5665ca7d3e1f09050c5&X-Amz-SignedHeaders=host&actor_id=0&key_id=0&repo_id=236250352&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B%20filename%3Dlibuv_1.42.0-1_patch.zip&response-content-type=application%2Foctet-stream
Resolving objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)... 185.199.110.133, 185.199.108.133, 185.199.109.133, ...
Connecting to objects.githubusercontent.com (objects.githubusercontent.com)|185.199.110.133|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 5146 (5.0K) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘get_patch’

get_patch                                                   100%[=========================================================================================================================================>]   5.03K  --.-KB/s    in 0.009s  

2021-12-07 05:50:04 (590 KB/s) - ‘get_patch’ saved [5146/5146]

ubuntu@rpi4:~$ dpkg -l openssl
Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge/Hold
| Status=Not/Inst/Conf-files/Unpacked/halF-conf/Half-inst/trig-aWait/Trig-pend
|/ Err?=(none)/Reinst-required (Status,Err: uppercase=bad)
||/ Name           Version           Architecture Description
+++-==============-=================-============-====================================================
ii  openssl        1.1.1f-1ubuntu2.9 arm64        Secure Sockets Layer toolkit - cryptographic utility
ubuntu@rpi4:~$ uname -a
Linux rpi4 5.4.0-1047-raspi #52-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT Wed Nov 24 08:16:38 UTC 2021 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux

Can you please provide more details on what hardware platform is being used in your case and what Ubuntu version / openssl version is in use? The meson github issue appears to mention Ubuntu 20.04 but some more details would be useful.