[Pkg-exppsy-maintainers] pbuilder problems

[Per B. Sederberg]

Hi Folks:

I'm trying to get pbuilder set up on my debian laptop and I keep
getting the following error, which is unspecific and fatal to the
process:

pbuilder create --debug --distribution lenny
...
...
P: Configuring helper cdebootstrap-helper-apt
E: Couldn't install system due to errors!
+ echo 'pbuilder: cdebootstrap failed'
pbuilder: cdebootstrap failed
+ exit 1


One suggestion on the web was to use debootstrap instead.  Do you have
any thoughts on this?