This is not a bug in Ubuntu's own openvpn package. The package you're
installing is the Ubuntu Xenial (16.04) package from OpenVPN project's
own apt repositories:

https://community.openvpn.net/openvpn/wiki/OpenvpnSoftwareRepos

Installing the 16.04 does not work because it actually does depend on
initscripts which Ubuntu 18.04 apparently does not have. You can force-
install the package and it will probably work, though. I do intend to
add Ubuntu 18.04 support soon.

To resolve your problem  try

  $ apt-get remove openvpn
  $ rm /etc/apt/sources.list.d/openvpn-aptrepo.list
  $ apt-get update
  $ apt-get install openvpn

This will get you Ubuntu's version of OpenVPN.

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