pdebuild cowbuilder doesn't resolve build-deps

[Francesco De Vita <fradev@inventati.org>]

Hello

I'm testing a change I made on the source package kde4libs but I'm 
encountering a problem using cowbuilder in building the debian binary 
package. To localize the problem I made a simple test case without 
applying any changes in the source package.

If I compile the source package with:
 $ sudo -E cowbuilder --build kde4libs_4.14.2-5.dsc

everything goes ok and I get the .deb packages.

But if I extract the source package and start the compilation inside 
the extracted directory with:
 $ sudo -E pdebuild --pbuilder cowbuilder --debbuildopts -sa

then the process aborts when it checks build-deps.
Here [1] the detailed output of the above command.

I'd expect to see the same behaviour with both commands, but in the 
first case cowbuilder solves the build-deps correctly invoking 
/usr/lib/pbuilder/pbuilder-satisfydepends, instead in the second case 
it does not.

Thank you in advance for any help, best regards.
Francesco

[1] https://paste.debian.net/162544/