Bug#402129: gnome-utils: FTBFS on GNU/kFreeBSD (due to unsatisfied Build-Depends on libhal-dev)

[Petr Salinger]

>> Please, could you exclude package currently available
>> only on Linux from Build-Depends by using
>> "libhal-dev [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386] (>= 0.5.5.1-3)".
>> After that, it builds fine at least on kfreebsd-i386.
>
> Please note it's the wrong order for version/architecture:
> dpkg-checkbuilddeps: warning: can't parse dependency libhal-dev
> [!kfreebsd-i386 !kfreebsd-amd64 !hurd-i386] (>= 0.5.5.1-3)

Sorry for this, 
"dpkg-buildpackage -b -uc" did not complain about wrong order :-(

> Also, why not port hal?  The removing of the libhal-dev build-deps
> everwhere sounds like you'll end up with a non-functional software.

It is long term goal, also the
"9 days ago  Joe Marcus ...  add the FreeBSD backend"
from http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal.git seems promising.

But for short term (we think about etch based snapshot)
porting hal does not seem achievable.

Thanks for all your kfreebsd-fixing uploads.

Petr