Bug#789868: pbuilder: pdebuild fails with sudo error

[Vincent Lefevre]

On 2015-10-02 19:49:44 +0000, Mattia Rizzolo wrote:
> discalimer: I don't even know whether I changed that bit of my sudo
> config, but `sudo -E` does work fine for me.

With Debian's default sudo configuration, it doesn't work.

> The discussion that added -E to the default sudo is at #361362.
> 
> My grepping through the sudo config doesn't reveal any interesting
> change env-wise, but I fear removing the -E would break quite some
> things:

According to the pbuilder manual[*], the -E option should be
unnecessary anyway:

[...]
  Here's some examples on running pbuilder or pdebuild:

  DIST=gutsy sudo pbuilder create

  DIST=sid sudo pbuilder create --mirror http://http.us.debian.org/debian
[...]

[*] /usr/share/doc/pbuilder/pbuilder-doc.html

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