Bug#534936: reinstalls fakeroot and breaks the build environment that way

[Eric Cooper]

Package: pbuilder
Version: 0.199
Severity: normal

I think I'm experiencing the same problem.
"pbuilder build ..." hangs here:
    [...]
    Current status: 0 broken [-1].
     -> Finished parsing the build-deps
    Reading package lists...
    Building dependency tree...
    Reading state information...
    The following NEW packages will be installed:
      fakeroot
    0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
    Need to get 0B/100kB of archives.
    After this operation, 385kB of additional disk space will be used.
    debconf: delaying package configuration, since apt-utils is not installed
    Selecting previously deselected package fakeroot.
    (Reading database ... 21459 files and directories currently installed.)
    Unpacking fakeroot (from .../fakeroot_1.14.4-1_amd64.deb) ...
    Processing triggers for man-db ...
    Setting up fakeroot (1.14.4-1) ...
    update-alternatives: using /usr/bin/fakeroot-sysv to provide /usr/bin/fakeroot (fakeroot) in auto mode.

This happens even though I am running it as root, so that is not a workaround.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: squeeze/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (990, 'testing'), (500, 'unstable'), (500, 'stable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/8 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages pbuilder depends on:
ii  coreutils                     8.5-1      GNU core utilities
ii  debconf [debconf-2.0]         1.5.33     Debian configuration management sy
ii  debianutils                   3.4        Miscellaneous utilities specific t
ii  debootstrap                   1.0.23     Bootstrap a basic Debian system
ii  wget                          1.12-2     retrieves files from the web

Versions of packages pbuilder recommends:
ii  devscripts                    2.10.65.1  scripts to make the life of a Debi
ii  fakeroot                      1.14.4-1   Gives a fake root environment
ii  sudo                          1.7.2p7-1  Provide limited super user privile

Versions of packages pbuilder suggests:
pn  cowdancer                     <none>     (no description available)
pn  gdebi-core                    <none>     (no description available)
pn  pbuilder-uml                  <none>     (no description available)

-- debconf information:
  pbuilder/rewrite: false
  pbuilder/mirrorsite: http://cdn.debian.net/debian
  pbuilder/nomirror: