I am currently working around this bug also.
The suggested workaround to generate a local repository of the packages
that are built in ~/pbuilder/dist_result is a good one, but it is
fragile because we are forced to assume the location of
~/pbuilder/dist_result when writing our ~/.pbuilderrc and
Adding to my previous comment, I can also see that the documentation is
wrong.
The page https://wiki.ubuntu.com/PbuilderHowto#Differences_with_pbuilder
says that:
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pbuilder-dist does apparently not yet support all kinds of operations. The
following doesn't work correctly for example:
This bug still exists in focal 20.04. It should not have been closed.
When using pbuilder-dist the value of OTHERMIRROR is ignored, as is the
value of --othermirror passed as argument to pbuilder-dist.
To work around this I need to manually add a mirror to
/etc/apt/sources.list from within a
