I didn't notice that dpkg had truncated the version of hal that I'm using.
:; dpkg -l hal | sed -ne '$s/ */ /gp' ii hal 0.5.12~git20090406.46dc48-1 Hardware Abstraction Layer -- If the From address bounces, please see http://www.pook.it/. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org