+1. I also cannot report any problems using your version.

However we have to understand that many packages/programs are linked to a specific version of libssl and/or libcrypto, so installing your openssl package will only affect programs that link to libcrypto.so and/or libssl.so (which symlink to 1.0.0), but not those linked to lib{ssl|crypto}.so.0.9.8 (= most of Maemo) or even libssl0.9.7 (AFAIK Karam's dsniff -- just hope the guy is OK).

Obviously we (one..) could try brutally renaming/symlinking libssl0.9.8 to libssl1.0.0 and see what breaks. But surely things will break if there's been any kind of API changes (and let's not forget that this, unfortunately, *is* the favorite sport of FOSSy developers).

I suggest someone (somebody do something!) create a Wiki page with the packages depending on ssl 0.9.8 and a note whether source code is available or not and whether compiling with a recent ssl works, and whether it works or not.

Then we can start pushing updated versions to extras (or CSSU, whatever).