Hi,
with lots of help from Tobias Grimm, the e-tobi multipatch packages now compile cleanly for Ubuntu. You can find a description and a first batch of binaries here:
the three flavours of e-tobi vdr (standard, multipatch and extensions) now available for i386 and amd64:
http://www.hanno.de/blog/2008/update-e-tobi-vdr-packages-ubuntu-hardy/
Test reports welcome.
Regards,
Hanno