I've found schroot on LVM snapshots[1] much easier to use than pbuilder for doing my retraces. However, I know pitti has been working on incorporating support for fakechroot, which will be very cool. :)
[1] https://help.ubuntu.com/community/SbuildLVMHowto -- Running apport-retrace in chroot https://launchpad.net/bugs/86938 -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs