[Pkg-utopia-maintainers] Bug#1127478: network-manager: Enable Open vSwitch (OVS) plugin

Mon Feb 9 13:21:34 GMT 2026

Package: network-manager
Version: 1.54.3-1
Severity: wishlist

The Open vSwitch (OVS) plugin is currently disabled in the Debian
network-manager build [1][2]. The use case we have is using
NetworkManager with OVS as part of Kubernetes KIND clusters this way
users can use kubernetes-nmstate [3] to configure cluster networking.

I think the build change is minimal — it requires passing the appropriate
configure flag to enable OVS support during package build.

[1] https://salsa.debian.org/utopia-team/network-manager/-/commit/5f0d2fd8
[2] https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/network-manager/+bug/1877884
[3] https://github.com/nmstate/kubernetes-nmstate