Comment 3 for bug 118868

It's not a bug in the packaging:

$ ls -la debian/changelog
-rw-r--r-- 1 kitterma kitterma 487 2007-06-05 20:51 debian/changelog

I suspect that the problem is that you made /tmp at / instead of in your home directory and so the permissions are off as a result. Try ~/tmp and see if it's different.