[Bug 1998904] Re: libopenvswitch is not built

[Frode Nordahl]

The Open vSwitch project provides a very useful library indeed, however,
upstream does not provide any ABI guarantees for the library, and as a
consequence it would be impossible for any distribution to provide a
stable delivery of a library package.  For reference, building of a
separate library package has also been disabled in Debian [0].

Projects building on OVS library code usually embed building of OVS as
part of their build process, one example of this is OVN [1].  I would
suggest to follow a similar approach instead.

0: https://salsa.debian.org/fnordahl/openvswitch/-/commit/9131194f475224ee8302ab19c4dd00cd45008adc
1: https://github.com/ovn-org/ovn

** Changed in: openvswitch (Ubuntu)
       Status: New => Won't Fix

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Title:
  libopenvswitch is not built

Status in openvswitch package in Ubuntu:
  Won't Fix

Bug description:
  The Ubuntu modifications to Open vSwitch disables the build of
  libopenvswitch and libopenvswitch-dev. The modifications were
  introduced in commit 3525cd6ed4 at Mon Aug 7 15:54:12 2017 +0100. The
  commit message says...

  > Drop libopenvswitch for now

  ... without further explanation.

  1) Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

  2) libopenvswitch 2.17.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 500 & libopenvswitch-dev
  2.17.2-0ubuntu0.22.04.2 500. Both are non-existent.

  3) I expect debs to be built for libopenvswitch and libopenvswich-dev
  when building debs from `apt-get source` or `debcheckout openvswitch`.
  I also expect these packages to be available in the official Ubuntu
  package archive together with the other Open vSwitch packages
  (https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=openvswitch&searchon=names&suite=jammy&section=all)

  Build command: `debuild -b -uc -us`
  Alternate: `DEB_BUILD_OPTIONS='parallel=8 nocheck' fakeroot debian/rules binary`

  4) libopenvswitch and libopenvswitch-dev are not built, nor available
  in the official Ubuntu package archive.

  What can I do to build the libopenvswitch{-dev} libraries? Let me know
  if there is anything I can do to contribute in resolving this issue.

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