It appears that using "sudo -E" instead of "sudo" for PBUILDERROOTCMD fixes this in Ubuntu.
Now that the upstream/Debian behaviour has hit Ubuntu Hardy, I've filed https://launchpad.net/bugs/175776. I'm unsure though, if this would work out of the box for all users in Debian, too.
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