[ovs-dev] failed to build in some Debian arch

[Thomas Goirand]

Hi,

I took over OpenVSwitch packaging in Debian within the OpenStack
packaging group, as Ben mentioned in the bug report that he'd be happy
to have co-maintainers. So Ben & myself will be co-maintaining OVS
within the Debian OpenStack team.

OpenVSwitch 2.8.1 fails to builds on some Debian arch because of failed
tests. Here's the logs in the buidd:

https://buildd.debian.org/status/package.php?p=openvswitch

As you can see, it fails in armel, mips and mipsel64. The other arch
where it fails aren't part of the official Debian release, but it'd be
nice to have them fixed anyway.

I tried to build the tip of the 2.8 branch in a Debian porter box, and
these tests are failing as well.

2 RC bugs were reported in Debian:
https://bugs.debian.org/880508
https://bugs.debian.org/880509

Could someone have a look and help me fix these bugs?

Cheers,

Thomas Goirand (zigo)