[git-buildpackage] Permission denied when building package

[Travis Wrightsman]

On Wed, Oct 20, 2021 at 08:08:40PM -0400, Travis Wrightsman wrote:
> Just for the record, I switched to pbuilder instead of cowbuilder and
> have been able to build packages successfully. I'm still not sure what
> part of my system configuration cowbuilder does not like.
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I figured out what was causing the cowbuilder error. I had to make sure
that the base directories in /var/cache/pbuilder/*.cow had o=rx
permissions. Glad it was a fairly simple issue and did, in fact, turn
out to be umask-related.

Travis