Hi Ben, I don't mind becoming a co-maintainer, though there's a few things that need to change to facilitate packaging. First of all, I'd like to switch to a Git packaging workflow, using git-buildpackage. The debian folder upstream here should be removed:
https://github.com/openvswitch/ovs/tree/master/debian otherwise, it will clash with what we have in Alioth. Then I'll push openvswitch in the Alioth git repository under /git/third-party. Also, I will remove the debian/automake.mk and the d/copyright hack. Indeed, Debian needs list of copyright holders, not authors. Is that fine for you? I'm starting... Cheers, Thomas Goirand (zigo)