On Debian bookworm: sudo apt install libpam-tmpdir
is enough to break cowbuilder, which then calls pbuilder.
I: Installing the build-deps -> Attempting to satisfy build-dependencies -> Creating pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy package Package: pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy Version: 0.invalid.0 Architecture: amd64 Maintainer: Debian Pbuilder Team <pbuilder-ma...@lists.alioth.debian.org> Description: Dummy package to satisfy dependencies with aptitude - created by pbuilder This package was created automatically by pbuilder to satisfy the build-dependencies of the package being currently built. Depends: debhelper (>= 13), debhelper-compat (= 13), devscripts, strip-nondeterminism, perl dpkg-deb: building package 'pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy' in '/tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy.deb'. dpkg-deb: error: failed to make temporary file (control member): No such file or directory E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.