The output of your command "dpkg -l openssh-client" is:

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  openssh-client 1:9.6p1-3ubuntu13.5 amd64        secure shell (SSH) client, for secure access to remote machines