A new and better version of checkroot for Debian/Ubuntu is available now. It allows you to verify your root file system and spot rootkits not available in any kind of database; a much better approach than chkrootkit and rkhunter! More user friendly than debsums.
some tiny fixes for xchroot-v2.3.3: corrected group management: xchroot as user may have failed without these fixes; note: released under the same upstream version i.e. 2.3.3 (only package revision has changed).
xchroot-v2.3.3 released; xchroot/openroot between different users, security fix when users have same name but different privileges; cd into home directory; current version of the license is being discussed at http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-discuss/2013-November/001358.html and http://projects.opensource.org/pipermail/license-review/2013-November/thread.html
version 1.1 released: S-FSL v1.3.1 license, better command line parsing, variable page size, minor bugfixes: restricts certain partitions to read only or no-read access.