It looks like the root cause of this issue is that the post-install script uses the mktemp command when the current user is root and the default Ubuntu configuration sets $TMPDIR to /tmp/user/uid# so the temporary file that gets created is in /tmp/user/0. Later, the script switches to the gitolite3 user and tries to read the file that was created with mktemp (as the gitolite3 user, but that read fails because the gitolite3 user doesn't have permission to navigate the parent directories of the file. Changing permissions on the parent directories is a security problem, so the best solution is probably to set the $TMPDIR environment variable to some world-readable directory, such as /tmp, at the start of the post-install script. So, a one-line addition to the debian/postinst script probably fixes the issue.
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