Comment 48 for bug 361689

It's not something I would have thought of on my own, but it appears to be a dependency in the amd .deb hal package you posted above:

root@saturn:/home/ded/Downloads# dpkg -i hal_0.5.12+git20090512-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb
(Reading database ... 94344 files and directories currently installed.)
Preparing to replace hal 0.5.12~rc1+git20090403-0ubuntu1 (using hal_0.5.12+git20090512-0ubuntu2_amd64.deb) ...
 * Stopping Hardware abstraction layer hald [ OK ]
Unpacking replacement hal ...
dpkg: dependency problems prevent configuration of hal:
 hal depends on libblkid1 (>= 2.15~rc2-1ubuntu1); however:
  Version of libblkid1 on system is 1.41.4-1ubuntu1.
dpkg: error processing hal (--install):
 dependency problems - leaving unconfigured
Processing triggers for man-db ...
Errors were encountered while processing:
 hal

Is karmic poison? Why the warning?

Thanks.