As we needed it for one of our customers, I've started to add support for Debian to the Ubuntu VMBuilder. My changes are not merged into trunk yet, but you can get them by running bzr branch lp:~bzed/vmbuilder/debian. At the moment there is only support for Etch, I'll add Lenny and Squeeze as soon as I find the time for it, probably next week - patches are welcome.

Today was the first day I needed a tool to rip an audio CD after the removal of grip from testing/unstable. Unfortunately I did not find an appropriate replacement yet. At the moment I'm using asunder, which is nice, but missing a lot of the features grip had.

Dear lazyweb, is there a proper replacement for grip out there, or is anybody willing to take over the upstream maintenance for grip?